CD Fellow in Comparative Politics, St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Gender, elections & public opinion. Also fiction, cake, cycling, women in sport, Everton, indie/rock/alt music.
Ceri Fowler
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I'm delighted to be co-editing a Research Topic in Frontiers in Political Science with Zoe Lefkofridi and Vera Beloshitzkaya on gender backlash, public opinion, and institutional responses in Europe.
We're now inviting abstracts. Deadline: September 6.
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...but Labour hold onto a high proportion of women in their 30s and 40s 3) Lots of these voters are strategic - they will vote for the best option to keep Reform out. This is probably especially true in Makerfield, where the controversy around the candidate is about sexism/misogyny.
Three (gendered!) things I think are important to understanding Labour support. 1) Their "core voter" for the last few elections is female, young, has a degree 2) Especially in seats where the Greens/other left options are viable, this vote is splitting, with the youngest women going Green...
Some v. interesting patterns in our pre-2026 locals data e.g., the share of younger women saying they would vote Green appears considerably higher than the share reporting a Green vote in 2024.
Lots more to dig into, but it's one of several changing dynamics on the left that we explore here 👇
The media & political classes (left + right) tend to guess wrong about the public - who have a *much* stronger common sense consensus on civic "inclusive nativism" than most of the commentariat seem to realise
New from me and @louiseluxton.bsky.social : a little taste of our new project/paper in development looking at splits on the left & gender. Big thanks to @psaepop.bsky.social for giving us the opportunity to collect some new data! @theconversation.com theconversation.com/the-leftwing...
Key point! Senedd elections under the new system did not give a more proportional result.
🏴 New Blog 🏴
A short piece on how the new Senedd voting system worked!
How many votes did it take to win a seat? Was it proportional? Who benefitted? Where did parties win support? And what would it take to win one more seat?
If you're interested: blogs.cardiff.ac.uk/thinking-wal...
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🚨 NEW REPORT! 🚨
What is the state of the UK academic job market in politics, and what does this mean for the field and #highered?
In a new @psaecn.bsky.social report, @lawrencemckay.bsky.social @williamlallen.bsky.social and I find worrying trends in job adverts and HESA data from 2012-25
#PSA26
