Jennifer vanHeerde-Hudson

• PhD
• University College London

Despite comprehensive reform (Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act) and recent review (Phillips Review in 2007) of party finance in Britain, public opinion of party finance remains plagued by perceptions of corruption, undue influence from wealthy donors, carefree and wasteful spending and, more generally, from the perception that there...

Events in 2005 such as the G8 Summit in Gleneagles and the Make Poverty History campaign have been successful in focusing the public's attention on the problem of world poverty. Despite these high-profile events and consistently high levels of public support for development assistance programmes, people's understanding of poverty and development is...

Few questions in political science have received more attention in recent times than the role of trust in democracy, democratic government and political participation. In Britain this has become a particular concern as levels of democratic engagement in traditional politics have declined, exacerbated by media reports of politicians' untrustworthy b...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate EU election data for the UK and Germany and examine the influence of promotional activity (party campaigning) and the different voting systems prevailing in these two countries – first past the post (FPTP) in the UK and proportional representation (PR) in Germany – on voter turnout. Design/methodolo...

This paper poses the question, why do voters seek to restrain political parties and candidates through institutional devices such as changing the primary system? A generation of political scientists have demonstrated that political parties provide a valuable mechanism linking voters and government, yet parties themselves are often held in low regar...

Costs associated with voting affect an individual's willingness to turn out for an election as well as aggregate rates of voting across political jurisdictions. Barriers to participation also skew the social and economic composition of electorates. In this Research Note, we suggest that the costs of participation affect candidate behaviour as well...

The Teaching Research Methods Track at the third annual APSA Teaching and Learning Conference included 26 participants from schools ranging from small colleges to major research universities. The program included presentations on the state of the undergraduate research methods field, information literacy, and a variety of teaching innovations, culm...

Although the USA uses the single-member plurality system, its elections look very different to the UK and most other countries. This is partly due to the very decentralized federal nature of elections, and the importance of the presidency and the system of candidate primaries. The extensive legal regulation of elections, primaries, and the highly r...

Abstract ,This paper examines party advertising in the 2001 and 2005 British general elections. I argue that while the substantial literature on political communications has shed light on the

Abstract Recent events such as the G8 Summit in Gleneagles and the Make Poverty History Campaign have been successful in focussing the public’s attention to the problem of world poverty, but research (OECD 2003) shows that peoples’ understanding of poverty and development,issues remains shallow, and despite consistently high levels of public suppor...