New York Jets style, on the sage advice of an intern: “the toilet paper was very thin because their plumbing isn’t as good”.
Author: Dave Brockington
Born in San Jose, grew up in Seattle, received a Ph.D. in poli sci from University of Washington in 2000. I worked for three years at Universiteit Twente in Enschede, Netherlands, and have worked at the University of Plymouth for 16 academic years now in Plymouth, United Kingdom. I also currently serve as joint campaign coordinator for the Plymouth Sutton & Devonport Constituency Labour Party.
My accent does media over here the United Kingdom, explaining to the fair citizens of the southwest of England why my home country appears to be composed of blood thirsty gun owners, while likewise u
As I posted in July, senior management at LGM has applied intense pressure casually suggested that I share some of the media work that I do. A regular morning feature on BBC Radio Devon is
Executive summary: not due to any sense of ideological purity, but because I think he has the best chance to lead Labour to victory in 2020. In 2009, I published an article in Party Politics that provides evidence supporting a relationship between choice-rich electoral environments and the probability of turnout. One argument that the article advances is […]
The current leadership contest for the Labour Party is demonstrating two of its purported weaknesses: narcissism and disorganisation. A lot of this was unavoidable. The bulk of the current party
So, the Labour Party lost an election a few months ago. The rhetoric and framing of this defeat are breathlessly disasterous, such as “an awful result“, “catastrophic“, and a &
As those poor souls who make a hobby or profession of following British politics know, the opposition Labour Party (and the party that I am a member of) is in the midst of one of our traditional periods of soul searching. There are four MPs standing, and roughly from right to left, they are Liz […]
In the course of my job, I done a fair share of media work, but it has ramped up significantly in the past couple of years. In a rare display of organisation, I’ve been keeping track
This verdict courtesy of the Electoral Reform Society, who have issued their report here (one of the authors of the report is a past student of ours): Few parties saw their vote shares fairly reflect
DB: In honor of Memorial Day, I offer the observations of my cousin. ——————————— The scary part for me, on this Memorial Day, is how separate from the military most Americans are. With such a small percentage of the population serving in the military, people’s every day lives are not impacted. This is not a bad […]
The public narrative of the cause for 2015 and the way forward has already been framed by the right wing of the party: It failed in small-town England but advanced in London and big cities. It continu
The Conservatives here in the United Kingdom have taken several pages from the Republican Party playbook. Following an election campaign predicated on fear, they’ve broken the shackles that th