👏Applause offers a revealing lens on party competition! In a recent article @wepsocial.bsky.social (w/@jocmuel.bsky.social+@pluggedchris.bsky.social), we study how applause reflects party and coalition unity, ideological agreement, political exclusion, issue ownership, and the electoral cycle! (1/6)

@coe.int standards on #elections include binding obligations for all countries, to ensure the right to #freeelections as set out in #ECHR. The work done by CoE can be understood through the #electoralcycle which provides a guide 2 each step in an electoral process. More 👇
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Thus, women get news not only as individuals navigating a #SocialRevolt, a #pandemic, and an intense #ElectoralCycle, but also as a means of caring for those closest to them. We invite scholars to keep studying the role of women as news caregivers in their private–public sphere

At this point in the #electoralcycle, #partiesofgovernment are usually behind where they end up on #GEDay, in a split vote between #YP (assume #JeremyCorbyn is running as YP or as an #Indy with their approval) and #GPoEW, Labour could easily win on quite a low vote.