Election news 27th May-2nd June 2017

 SNP Manifesto
Stop the Tories - Facebook independnet activist page campaigns.


What will be left ? Labour’s parliamentary representation after 8 June-  Policy Network paper

Higher Education 2022 - GuildHE manifesto

CAF response to UKIP election manifesto

CAF's Campaigns Manager Steve Clapperton responds to UKIP's General Election manifesto.

CAF responds to the Green Party’s election manifesto

CAF Chief Executive John Low comments on the publication of the Green Party's 2017 General Election manifesto.

Conservative Election manifesto - CAF response

CAF comments on the Conservative Party Election manifesto

Guardian coverage of use of social media to mock leaders perfomance (Theresa May) in leadership debate.

General Election 2017
Getting a Brexit deal that works for the NHS Nuffield Trust

British Youth Council Manifesto

Red, Yellow and Blue Brexit: UK Manifestos - Britain in a changing Europe. 

British Ports Association election briefing.

Public sector pay in the next parliament IFS analysis 

Pass or fail: election manifesto education policies analysed Education Policy Institute


A comparison of manifesto proposals on school spending in England IFS 

Can political parties capture the hearts and minds of young and old alike on polling day? Resolution Foundation analysis

NIESR Education briefings - economic analysis of policies. 

National Voices briefings summarising the health and care aspects of political party manifestos

Election news 22nd - 27th May 2017

 Green Party Manifesto launched
UKIP manifesto

Still just about managing? Pre-election briefing on the main political parties’ welfare policies Resolution Foundation.

Education Datalab costing of Conservative manifesto free school breakfasts pledge.

Demos is mapping cross party conversations on twitter

 Interest groups

Cats 2022- Agenda  Cat Protection League manifesto

Fairfuel UK manifesto 

NHS funding choices and the 2017 General Election Nuffield Foundation.

Challenge your local candidates Use the CIPD  toolkit to engage and challenge your local candidates to champion better work and better working lives!

Campaign for better transport  

NFER - election 2017 (education news) 

Institute of Directors website

 

Iranian elections 2017- get some free academic facts

Presidential elections will take place in Iran this week
these guides have good basic guidance on the political system and what is at stake.

Guardian has a everything you need to know guide.
Al-Jazeera has a basic explainer.
IFES has good basic information.
it also has older materials on previous elections from 2011 onwards.

Research think tanks with analysis on Iran
They also include some recent comentary on political events.

Rand

Brookings 

Chatham House

Foreign Affairs

Human Rights Watch

Amnesty International annual report - Iran

Iranian news round up- from AEI critical threat project includes translations of materials published in Iran

 Iranian election polls and results.

Iranian pulse from Al- Monitor has news and analysis of debates and polls
Carnegie Endowment is tracking the election on its blog
Iran Poll.com
is providing some free access to English language polls via Iranian Election Barometer blog.
Iranian Students Polling Agency has some Arabic and English resources.
Iranian political participation project - 2013 elections research and data. by Social Change and Conflict (PARIS/SCC) -a leading research group in political participation- situated in the sociology department at VU University Amsterdam.