'We wanted to offer people a voice' 🗣️ Our student, Nabil Nickels (BSc Politics), headed to the Essex coast this month to document the by-election battle between Nigel Farage and Count Binface 🗳️🗑️ Read more and watch Nabil's film below ⬇️ h/t @tombarton.bsky.social www.kcl.ac.uk/news/we-want...

'We wanted to offer people a voice' - student covers by-election battle for film debut | King's College London

As the subject of a debut foray into film-making, the Clacton by-election was no straightforward assignment.

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The university term might be over, that hasn't stopped students at King's engaging with politics. Nabil has created a documentry about the Clacton by-election, if you have 10 minutes it's worth a watch! Very glad to make a small contribution. @kcl-spe.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CcR...

Clacton By-Election

A documentary by Nabil Nickels and Leonard Geymayer. Thank you: Dr. Tom Barton | King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/tom-barton Jack Dart | Reform Watch https://www.reformwatch.org/ Mark Rothman | Top Secret Comedy Club https://thetopsecretcomedyclub.co.uk Joseph Wells | @binface4clacton https://www.instagram.com/binface4clacton26/ Bibliography: Videos Full interview with Count Binface ahead of Clacton by-election | BBC News Rory Stewart and Alastair Campbell Interview Count Binface | The Rest Is Politics Reform UK leader Nigel Farage to make statement 'on public life' - watch live | Guardian News Clacton Express: Binface 2026 | Count Binface Voting For Binface | Count Binface Articles Farage political rivals say they will boycott ‘fake’ byelection after his resignation | The Irish Times Farage says £5m gift spending details 'not public's business’ | BBC News Nigel Farage’s Reform UK is Now Britain’s Biggest Far-Right Threat, Finds Report | BYLINE Times Images Iberia Airlines Vintage Poster

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OUT NOW! What is Electoral Integrity? Conceptualising Election Quality in an Age of Complexity, with Cambridge University Press And it is FREE to download until 14 July 2026 www.cambridge.org/core/element... Holly Ann Garnett and I redefine electoral integrity around human empowerment..

What is Electoral Integrity?

Cambridge Core - American Studies - What is Electoral Integrity?

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Happy to see our @ejprjournal.bsky.social article on political representation on policy issues across European countries cited in this piece in @economist.com Article link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... With fantastic co-authors: @stefaniereher.bsky.social @dtoshkov.bsky.social

The opinion‐policy nexus in Europe and the role of political institutions

A strong link between citizen preferences and public policy is one of the key goals and criteria of democratic governance. Yet, our knowledge about the extent to which public policies on specific iss...

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School of Politics and Economics@kcl-spe.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Research by Professor Anne Rasmussen on the misalignment of policy and public opinion in the UK features in a new article by @economist.com Read more here 👇 www.economist.com/britain/2026...

🔔 Postdoc vacancies 🔔 A project co-led by our academic, Udit Bhatia, is advertising for two postdocs (four-year positions). ➡️ A third post will be advertised in 2027. The positions will assist with work on popular government in the Global South popgovproject.wordpress.com/postdoc-posi...

Postdoc Positions

POPGOV will recruit several postdoctoral researchers to be based at the four host institutions (Girona, KCL, LSE, UCLouvain). UCLouvain is recruiting 3 postdoctoral researchers in democratic rheory…

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Time for an explainer on how to get funding for a PhD in the UK (1/n)

Florian is absolutely correct, I guess I would say that. Evidence suggests that we don't see depressive effects in Europe is because, unlike the UK and US, they have compulsory ID which is provided at low or zero cost. It can then have wider electoral benefits esp. with registration

Florian Foos@florianfoos.bsky.social · 12mo ago

An under-appreciated advantage of compulsory digital id cards is that they will help individuals to id themselves at the polls, a requirement which likely depresses turnout according to research by @tombarton.bsky.social: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Do UK voters see a trade-off between electoral integrity and turnout? Jeffrey A. Karp argues that beliefs about fraud and ideology, not turnout concerns, best predict support for photo ID. Read OPEN ACCESS: buff.ly/r2FnjwH @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social @uoypolitics.bsky.social @sagepub.com #polsky

Research on voter ID and election turnout authored by our academic, @tombarton.bsky.social, has been featured in a new article by @noahvickers.bsky.social in @standard.co.uk.web.brid.gy 🗳️🗂️ Read it here ⬇️ www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

New research suggests voter ID law 'significantly reduces' turnout

Campaigners warn the law is having a ‘damaging and disproportionate impact on our democracy’

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Some sunshine reading, I was interviewed about my recent @psrm.bsky.social paper about Voter ID in The Standard. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

New research suggests voter ID law 'significantly reduces' turnout

Campaigners warn the law is having a ‘damaging and disproportionate impact on our democracy’

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Some sunshine reading, I was interviewed about my recent @psrm.bsky.social paper about Voter ID in The Standard. www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

New research suggests voter ID law 'significantly reduces' turnout

Campaigners warn the law is having a ‘damaging and disproportionate impact on our democracy’

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📣 CALLING ALL QUANT SOCIAL SCIENTISTS! 📣 Do you know of causally identified research that estimates the effect of higher education on political attitudes? @elizabethsim0n.bsky.social and I are currently working on a meta-analysis on this question and we need your help!

📣Pub Alert! Here I causally identify (one of the only outside of the USA) a negative effect of a voter ID pilot scheme from 2018. This scheme was less restrictive than that used at the 2024 GE, implying a greater proportion of people were excluded from voting in June and a fairer system is needed.

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#OpenAccess from @psrm.bsky.social - Understanding the impact of the 2018 voter ID pilots on turnout at the London local elections: A synthetic difference-in-difference approach - cup.org/420N1D4 "...more restrictive ID laws can meaningfully limit turnout..." - @tombarton.bsky.social #FirstView

🚨 EPOP 2025 Call for papers now open! 🚨 Please fill out this form before the end of April to submit your paper proposal forms.office.com/e/4wBNMq4qwi Accepting presentations on all aspects of elections, public opinion and parties using all methods.

📣 NEW PAPER KLAXON 📣 "Who lacks voter identification? The electoral implications of the Elections Act 2022" With Ed Fieldhouse, @caprosser.bsky.social, @jack-bailey.co.uk, @jonmellon.bsky.social (@britishelectionstudy.com) Just published at Parliamentary Affairs: academic.oup.com/pa/advance-a...

If you are a third year UG student or a Masters student, and are interesting in studying for a PhD in the UK, then (roughly speaking) you've got to decide whether you're going to apply for the main funding scheme for it over the next four months. Explanation follows... (1/n)

Excited to announce that from Monday I will be starting a Post-Doc at King's College on the ERC funded Advocacy in Digital Democracy project, led by @annerasmussen.bsky.social. A change of location (within London) and topic for me but something highly relevant to politics today

For the first time many voters in the UK had to show ID, did it affect turnout? We discuss below.

Chris Hanretty@chanret.bsky.social · 2y ago

.@tombarton.bsky.social and I have written a post on the effects of voter ID on turnout in #GE2024; we think that in the average constituency turnout was around 1.37 to 1.6 percentage points lower than it otherwise would have been hollodec.github.io/2024/07/09/v...

Data dump: using Survation's data on electoral registration and possession of qualifying photo ID, I've put together ward-level estimates (E&W only) of the proportion of registered electors who lack qualifying ID. You can find it here: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... (1/n)

Ward-level estimates of registration and lack of ID (7th June edition)

Proportion lacking ID by ward Ward,Ward code,Borough,Westminster seat,Seat code,Ward voting age population in census,Registered voters (estimated),Registered voters without ID (estimated),Avg Pct reg...

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As a preview to the local elections tomorrow obviously the outcome is important but many areas will be dealing with voter ID for the first time. Particularly in big cities such as London, Greater Manchester and Liverpool. (1/n)

Can't think of a better first post than a thread on my PhD which passed with minor corrections yesterday! With the title: 'The impact of Voter ID Laws on Participation and Perceptions of Electoral Integrity: An International Study' (1\n)