Professor of Politics, Strathclyde University
John Curtice is a Senior Research Fellow at NatCen Social Research, Professor of Politics at the University of Strathclyde and Research Consultant to the Scottish Centre for Social Research. He is particularly interested in electoral behaviour, electoral systems, and political and social attitudes.
A regular broadcaster and contributor to newspapers, John is also president of the British Polling Council and vice chair of the Economic and Social Data Service’s Advisory Committee.
US election pollsters were actually a lot closer than people think – John Curtice
Nov 13, 2024 12:32 pm UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Polling of the US election has been widely criticised following the outcome of last Tuesdays ballot. For weeks in the run-up to polling day the polls were widely reported as saying that the result was too close to call....
Trust hits new low: 45% of people think politicians put party before country
Jun 12, 2024 05:59 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
There is an air of deja vu about this election. Trust and confidence in how Britain is governed is as low as it has ever been just as it was shortly before the last election five years ago. Yet the circumstances that...
Age, not class, is now the biggest divide in British politics, new research confirms
Sep 23, 2023 03:17 am UTC| Insights & Views Life
Class is the basis of British politics; all else is embellishment and detail. So wrote Peter Pulzer, the former Gladstone professor of politics at the University of Oxford in the 1960s. Nowadays, however, it is age, not...
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