Election Prospects and Consequences: 2012 and Beyond [Audio/Video]
Latest from Elections 2012 by Nigel Bowles.The links below lead to a talk given in September at an Oxford Alumni event where RAI Director Nigel Bowles reminded the audience that this election is about...
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Latest from Elections 2012 by Michael Bailey. When Mitt Romney’s 47% comments came to light, many were surprised that Romney’s claim that 47% of households do not pay income taxes is, in fact, true....
View ArticleAll to Play for in the Home Stretch
Latest from Elections 2012 by Timothy Stanley.It’s a little over three weeks to go before America votes in the 2012 presidential election, and things have suddenly turned interesting. For a while,...
View ArticleTea Partiers and Eurosceptics
Latest from Elections 2012 by Jay SextonAt a recent Oxford dinner a guest asserted that only America could produce a political insurgency like the tea party. Not so, I responded: the eurosceptics in...
View ArticleWho is the middle class voter?
Latest from Elections 2012 by Sophie FitzMauriceWhen Obama and Romney went head-to-head in the last two debates, both made strident appeals to the American middle class. In the first debate, President...
View ArticleWinant Inaugural Lecture: Explaining Obama: Strategic Assessments and...
Latest from the RAI Events Blog and Elections 2012 by Nadia HilliardIn his stimulating and well-attended inaugural lecture on Wednesday evening, 2012-2013 Winant Professor George C. Edwards forged a...
View ArticleThe Money Trail: TV adverts are the most costly, but as a recent exhibition...
Latest from Elections 2012 by Philip Davies. From the coverage of the US election in the UK news media it would be easy to get the impression that we are witnessing a single battle of giants, or a...
View ArticlePolitical Storms: Hurricane Sandy has temporarily relieved us from the...
Latest from Elections 2012 by Alexander EwingHurricane Sandy is a national tragedy for the US. And like both presidential candidates, journalists and academics are cautious about discussing the...
View ArticleUS Republicans: The election postmortem should recognise that change is...
Latest from Elections 2012 by Lukasz PawlowskiBarack Obama won re-election, his party managed to hold the Senate, and the House of Representatives is still – exactly as before the elections – dominated...
View ArticleTargeting and turnout in the 2012 Presidential Election
Latest from Elections 2012 by Rasmus Kleis NielsenOne of the big questions in the run-up to the 2012 Presidential Election was what the turnout would be. Would the supposed “enthusiasm gap” lead to...
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