2018

9th May 2018, Political Insight
By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
A man’s game? The Grassroots gender gap in Britain’s political parties (pdf)

13th April 2018, New Statesman
By Tim Bale
On Anti-semitism, new and old Labour members are moving in the same direction

15th March 2018, The Conversation
By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
Where have all the women gone? The Tories have a serious gender problem
[re-posted by I-News]

7th March 2018, Huffington Post
By Tim Bale
The numbers that show it’s wrong to suggest that Labour disaffiliated from the Unions

7th March 2018, New Statesman
By Monica Poletti, Tim Bale and Paul Webb
Why women leave political parties

February 2018, Society Now – ESRC Research making an impact – It’s my party. Who joins political parties and why (front page and page 14)

8th February 2018, The UK in a Changing Europe
By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
What party members think about Brexit

31th January 2018, The UK in a Changing Europe
By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
Party members chapter – Full .pdf report (p.27)

10th January 2018, The Times – Red Box
By Tim Bale
Party members hold dear their privileges in candidate selection

8th January 2018, The Telegraph
By Tim Bale
New party chairman Brandon Lewis will struggle to revive the shrivelled Tory grassroots

5th January 2018, City AM
By Tim Bale
Normal people don’t join political parties

5th January 2018, Politicos
By Tim Bale
Tories are older, whiter and more authoritarian

4th January 2018, Pamphlet with main project findings distributed to all MPs
By Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti
Grassroots – Britain’s party members: who they are, what they think and what they do

 

2017

9th October 2017, The Times – Red Box
By Paul Webb
Revealed: the typical political party member (pdf)

 

6th October 2017, Labour List
By Tim Bale
Tim Bale: Inside Labour’s massive membership base

6th October 2017, Financial Times
By Time Bale
Grassroots Tories are certainly no spring chicken

 

5th October 2017, Politico
OMG Britain’s Tories are SO OLD

3rd October 2017, The Guardian
By Tim Bale
How the Tory party can solve its membership crisis, in three easy steps

2nd October 2017, UK in changing Europe
By Monica Poletti, Tim Bale, Paul Webb
Tory members: divided over Brexit

7th September 2017, Huffington Post
By Monica Poletti
Blue Grassroots: Conservative Party Members in the Aftermath of the Brexit Referendum

10th May 2017, The Monkey Cage – Washington Post
By Tim Bale
Britian’s Labour Party is seeing a flood of new members. That’s why it’s in such trouble.

21st April 2017, The Policy Space blog
By Monica Poletti
Who will campaign in the UK 2017 snap election? Hints from party members and supporter activism during GE2015
[Republished on the LSE British Politics and Policy and on LSE Euro Crisis in the Press]

16th April 2017, Labour List
By Tim Bale, Paul Webb, Monica Poletti
The true picture of Labour members and supporters and their election campaigning

8th April 2017, Conservative Home
By Tim Bale
Tim Bale: A Conservative secret weapon at the last election: the non members who worked for victory

2nd April, Liberal Demoract Newswire (dr. Mark Pack)
By Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti
Fighting force? What Lib Dem members and supporters did for the party in #GE2015

 

 

19th March 2017, Conservative Home
By Tim Bale
Tim Bale: The Conservatives who threatened to vote UKIP. All mouth and no trousers.

19th January 2017, Prospect magazine
By Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
Speed data: who are Labour’s members?

2016

21st December 2016, Conservative Home
By Tim Bale
Tim Bale: Are elections won by members or money?

7th November 2016, Political Insight
by Tim Bale
‘The Corbyn problem’ and the Future of Labour

16th November 2016, LSE British Politics and Policy blog
by Monica Poletti, Tim Bale and Paul Webb
Explaining the pro-Corbyn surge in Labour’s membership
[Republished on 22nd of November by the Mile End Institute blog and on EUROPP]

24th September 2016, The Conversation blog
by Monica Poletti
Why Labour Party members still back Jeremy Corbyn as their leader
[Republished by the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) blog, by MyScience, by London News 24/7.com, and by StuntFM]
Longer version of the same blog piece published on the 26th of September 2016 on the Mile End Insitute blog:
From #JezWeCan to #JezWeDid: Why Labour Party members still back Jeremy Corbyn

19th July 2016, The Conversation blog
by Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
Here’s what we know about Labour’s £3 supporters – and whether they’ll pay £25 to help Corbyn again
[Republished by the Independent, The Staggers blog (NewStatesman), NewsWeek magazine, and by the Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) blog]

28th June 2016, Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) blog
by Tim Bale
Corbyn’s Labour: Survey of post-2015 Labour members and supporters

14th July 2016, The Staggers blog (NewStatesman)
by Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb
Middle-class university graduates will decide the future of the Labour party

12th July 2016, The Conversation blog.
by Paul Webb, Monica Poletti and Tim Bale
A “bloody difficult woman”: What does the Tory grassroots want from Prime Minister Theresa May
[Republished by the Political Studies Association (PSA) blog, the Democratic Audit UK blog and Queen Mary University of London blog (QMUL)]

28th June 2016, Huffington Post blog.
by Tim Bale:
Jezza’s Bezzas: Labour’s New Members
[Republished by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) blog]

14th March 2016, LSE British Politics and Policy blog
by Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti:
Minority views? Labour members had been longing for someone like Corbyn before he was even on the ballot paper
[re-posted on 14th March 2016 by Guido Fawkes blog: Seen elsewhere]

8th March 2016, The Times – Red Box
by Tim Bale, Monica Poletti and Paul Webb:
What Cameron activists think about Cameron’s deal…and staying in the EU (pdf)

3rd March 2016, LSE British Politics and Policy blog
by Monica Poletti and James Dennison:
The Green Surge and how it changed the membership of the Party
[re-posted on 4th March 2016 by The Campaign Company: Newsletter ]

5th February 2016, ESRC Party Members Project blog (PMP)
by Tim Bale, Monica Poletti & Paul Webb:
Cameron and Tebbit are both wrong: Tory activists are not as set on leaving the EU as many imagine
[Republished on the 12th February 2016 by the LSE British Politics & Policy blog]

8th January, 2016, LSE British Politics and Policy blog
by Tim Bale, Paul Webb and Monica Poletti:
Ideology is in the eye of the beholder: How British party supporters see themselves, their parties, and their rivals

2015

3rd October 2015, The Argus (Brighton).
By Paul Webb:
Some formidable challenges for Labour’s leader

22nd June 2015, New Statesman.
By Tim Bale and Paul Webb:
Who will win the Labour leadership election? It’s a little early to tell

19th June 2015, The Telegraph.
By Tim Bale:
Tory members trust David Cameron on the EU. Here’s the poll that proves it

15th June 2015, The Telegraph.
By Tim Bale and Paul Webb:
Only 15 per cent of Conservative party members would vote to leave the EU