Philip Cowley
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British political scientist
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Philip Cowley's Degrees
- PhD Politics University of Nottingham
- Masters Politics University of Nottingham
- Bachelors Politics University of Nottingham
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Philip Cowley is a British political scientist and an academic at Queen Mary University of London in the School of Politics and International Relations. He previously held the same title at the University of Nottingham. Within academia he is particularly notable for his analysis of Parliamentary voting behaviour in the UK House of Commons and House of Lords and secondly his opposition to a lowering of the UK voting age below 18.
Philip Cowley's Published Works
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Published Works
- The British General Election of 2010 (2001) (259)
- What Voters Want: Reactions to Candidate Characteristics in a Survey Experiment (2014) (182)
- Revolts and Rebellions: parliamentary voting under Blair (2002) (124)
- Too Spineless to Rebel? New Labour's Women MPs (2003) (109)
- The Politics of Local Presence: Is there a Case for Descriptive Representation? (2011) (78)
- Rebels and Rebellions: Conservative MPs in the 1992 Parliament (1999) (76)
- The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence (2016) (64)
- Arise, Novice Leader! The Continuing Rise of the Career Politician in Britain (2012) (59)
- British elections and parties review. (1999) (57)
- Legislator Dissent as a Valence Signal (2016) (54)
- Why not ask the audience? Understanding the public's representational priorities (2013) (42)
- Sodomy, Slaughter, Sunday Shopping and Seatbelts (1997) (41)
- The British Conservative Party and Europe: The Choosing of John Major (1998) (41)
- Party Rules, OK: Voting in the House of Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill (2010) (40)
- Peasants' Uprising or Religious War? Re-examining the 1975 Conservative Leadership Contest (2000) (37)
- Candidate localness and voter choice in the 2015 General Election in England (2017) (36)
- Parliament: More Revolts, More Reform (2003) (36)
- Why Friends and Neighbors? Explaining the Electoral Appeal of Local Roots (2019) (35)
- The Cambusters: The Conservative European Union Referendum Rebellion of October 2011 (2012) (32)
- Still Causing Trouble: The Conservative Parliamentary Party (2004) (30)
- Rich Man, Poor Man, Politician Man: Wealth Effects in a Candidate Biography Survey Experiment (2014) (30)
- Votes at 16? The case against (2004) (27)
- Overcoming barriers to effective practice in child care (2000) (26)
- Voting in the House or Wooing the Voters at Home: Labour MPs and the 2001 General Election Campaign (2002) (26)
- Conscience and Parliament (1998) (19)
- Unbridled passions? Free votes, issues of conscience and the accountability of British members of parliament (1998) (17)
- A Coalition with Two Wobbly Wings: Backbench Dissent in the House of Commons (2012) (16)
- Where has all the trouble gone? British intra-party parliamentary divisions during the Lisbon ratification (2010) (15)
- Descriptive Representation and Political Trust: A Quasi-natural Experiment Utilising Ignorance (2014) (15)
- Attitudes to Moonlighting Politicians: Evidence from the United Kingdom (2015) (14)
- In Place of Strife? The PLP in Government, 1997–2001 (2003) (14)
- New Leaders, Same Problems: The Conservatives (2005) (13)
- In the Brown Stuff?: Labour Backbench Dissent Under Gordon Brown, 2007–10 (2014) (12)
- Modes of UK Executive–Legislative Relations Revisited (2018) (11)
- Ambassadors in the Community? Labour Party Members in Society (1999) (10)
- Whipping Them in: Role-Playing Party Cohesion with a Chief Whip (2015) (9)
- Whither the ‘new role’ in policy making? Conservative MPs in standing committees, 1979 to 1992 (1995) (8)
- The impact of parental status on the visibility and evaluations of politicians (2018) (8)
- AMS in a cold climate: The scottish parliament in practice (2000) (8)
- There was a Doctor, a Journalist and Two Welshmen: the Voting Behaviour of Independent MPs in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997-2007 (2008) (7)
- When sheep bark: the parliamentary Labour Party since 2001 (2004) (7)
- Parliament: A Few Headaches and a Dose of Modernisation (2001) (7)
- Peers' Careers: Ministers in the House of Lords, 1964–95 (1997) (7)
- A Rebellious Decade: Backbench Rebellions under Tony Blair, 1997–2007 (2008) (7)
- The Effect of Teaching Parliamentary Studies on Students' Knowledge and Attitudes: A Pilot Study (2015) (7)
- Parliament: More Bleak House than Great Expectations (2004) (7)
- The Commons: Mr Blair's Lapdog? (2001) (7)
- The Blair Effect 2001–5: Parliament (2005) (6)
- The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties (2021) (6)
- Chaos or Cohesion? Major and the Conservative Parliamentary Party (1999) (6)
- The Parliamentary Party (2009) (6)
- Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: 50 Things You Need to Know About British Elections (2014) (5)
- Mr Blair's loyal opposition? The liberal democrats in parliament (2000) (5)
- Parliament: Hunting for Votes (2005) (5)
- Labour in Disguise? Liberal Democrat MPs, 1997–2001 (2003) (5)
- Voting in the Scottish parliament: The first year (2001) (4)
- The wild mammals (protection) bill: A parliamentary white elephant? (1996) (4)
- The absence of war? New Labour in parliament (1999) (4)
- "Crossing the floor": representative theory and practice in Britain (1996) (4)
- British Elections and Parties Review 10 (1999) (3)
- REBELLION VERSUS LOYALTY, SHIRKING VERSUS WORKING: A NOTE ON FRAMING PARLIAMENTARY BEHAVIOUR (2014) (3)
- How to Get Information Out of Members of Parliament (Without Being Told Off by the Speaker) (2021) (3)
- What a Ridiculous Thing to Say! (Which is Why We didn't Csay it): A Response to Timothy Heppell (2002) (3)
- Getting Better, Slowly. Ethnicity, Gender and Party in London's Local Government (2019) (3)
- British Elections & Parties Review (1999) (3)
- Parliament and the Poll Tax: A Case Study in Parliamentary Pressure (1995) (3)
- Introduction: The British general election of 1997 (1998) (3)
- How did he do that? The second round of the 1990 conservative leadership election (1996) (3)
- The Election in Retrospect (2018) (2)
- Political Parties and the British Party System (2011) (2)
- 21. The Rise of the Professional Politician (2018) (2)
- The Mystery of the Third Hurdle: Re-Electing the Conservative Leader (1996) (2)
- Parliament: The House of Commons — Plenty of Business but Marking Time (2007) (2)
- British Parliamentarians and European Integration (2000) (2)
- The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015: The coalition and Parliament (2015) (2)
- Introduction: A Landscape without a Map? British Politics after 2010 (2011) (2)
- Britain beyond Blair - party politics and leadership succession (2006) (1)
- Marginality, Mortality and Majority: The Effect of by-Elections on Government Majorities (1995) (1)
- The Labour leadership contest (2017) (1)
- Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Elections (But Were Too Afraid to Ask) (2015) (1)
- More Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box (2016) (1)
- Expert voices: is it time to lower the voting age to 16? (2014) (1)
- Response to Alison Plumb and David Marsh (2011) (1)
- Political Recruitment and the Political Class (2016) (1)
- Will joke, won't vote: the internet and political engagement (2014) (1)
- Where to Drop the Bombs: The Constituency Battle (2016) (1)
- The Observer: Good at Observing, Less Good at Influencing? (2001) (1)
- Wrong-Footed Again: The Polls (2018) (1)
- The Conservative parliamentary party (2018) (1)
- Votes at 16: democracy experts respond to Ed Miliband’s proposal (2013) (1)
- The representation of women in politics, addressing the supply side: Public attitudes to job-sharing parliamentarians (2014) (1)
- Politics in 60 seconds. Lowering the voting age (2017) (0)
- Zugzwang: The Liberal Democrats and Others (2016) (0)
- How Hard Can it Be? The Conservatives (2016) (0)
- The Liberal Democrats and Others (2018) (0)
- Book reviews (2002) (0)
- Ambassadors in the Ambassadors in the community? Labour community? Labour Party members in Party members in (1999) (0)
- Dead Cats and Bogy Men: The National Campaign (2016) (0)
- Population movement in response to local taxes and services: The results of a pilot study (1991) (0)
- Roads and Car Crashes: The Election Approaches (2016) (0)
- Parliament: Mostly Continuity, But More Change Than You'd Think (2002) (0)
- The representation of women in politics, addressing the supply side: Public attitudes to job-sharing parliamentarians (2014) (0)
- Different Scripts Required: Election Night (2016) (0)
- Not Going According to Plan (2018) (0)
- Preface (2000) (0)
- Horrors and Hopes (2018) (0)
- Brand Failure: Labour (2016) (0)
- What makes a Tory MP rebel: and what are their red lines on Brexit? (2017) (0)
- Reference Section (2000) (0)
- The Calling of the Election (2021) (0)
- Academics and the Media: A View from Politics (2023) (0)
- From Stockbroker’s Son to Vicar’s Daughter: The Conservatives (2018) (0)
- Speaking for Britain? MPs broadly reflect the views of their supporters on Europe – but one side should worry a little more than the other (2016) (0)
- Early-Twentieth Century Parliamentary Private Secretaries to the Prime Minister: A Niche Detective Story, Still Partly Unsolved (2023) (0)
- Politics in 60 seconds. Party whips (2017) (0)
- British elections & parties (1997) (0)
- Last Word: How to Interview Politicians (2021) (0)
- Book reviews (2000) (0)
- I’m Afraid There is No Money: Five Years of Coalition (2016) (0)
- Election Night and Its Aftermath (2018) (0)
- Targeted (and Untargeted) Local Campaigning (2018) (0)
- Notes on contributors (2000) (0)
- Why not ask the audience? Understanding the public's representational priorities (2013) (0)
- From Miliband to Corbyn: Labour (2018) (0)
- Out of the Blue: The Campaign in Retrospect (2016) (0)
- Legislator Dissent Does Not Affect Electoral Outcomes (2022) (0)
- British Elections and Parties Review : The General Election of 1997 (2013) (0)
- Book Reviews (1998) (0)
- The Rise of the Local MP (2023) (0)
- An Uncritical Critical Mass (2002) (0)
- Parental status as an electoral asset: how voters view politicians with and without children (2018) (0)
- Back-bench rebels (2017) (0)
- Margin of Error: The Polls (2016) (0)
- What's in a Name? The Length of Westminster Constituency Titles, 1950–2024 (2021) (0)
- Increasingly local: the regional roots of British Members of Parliament, 2010–2019 (2022) (0)
- Parliament in the UK (2017) (0)
- Parliament: The House of Commons — Turbulence Ahead? (2006) (0)
- House of Uncommons (2015) (0)
- Towards a Landslide (2018) (0)
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