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Publications: Prof Philip Cowley

Cowley P, Umit R ( 2022 ) . Legislator Dissent Does Not Affect Electoral Outcomes . British Journal of Political Science vol. 53 , ( 2 ) 789 - 795 .
Cowley P, Gandy RJ, Foster S ( 2022 ) . Increasingly local: the regional roots of British Members of Parliament, 2010–2019 . Journal of Legislative Studies vol. 30 , ( 3 ) 253 - 264 .
Cowley P, Bailey M ( 2021 ) . What’s in a name? The length of Westminster constituency titles, 1950-2024 . The Political Quarterly vol. 92 , ( 4 ) 727 - 731 .
Cowley P, WAGER A, Bale T, Menon A ( 2021 ) . The death of May’s Law: intra- and inter-party value differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative parties . Political Studies
Campbell R, COWLEY PJ ( 2019 ) . The impact of parental status on the visibility and evaluations of politicians . The British Journal of Politics and International Relations
Campbell R, COWLEY PJ, Vivyan N, Wagner M ( 2019 ) . Why friends and neighbors? Explaining the electoral appeal of local roots . Journal of Politics
COWLEY PJ, MUROKI M ( 2019 ) . Getting better, slowly. Ethnicity, gender and party in London’s local government . Political Quarterly
Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . The British General Election of 2017 . Springer
Russell M, COWLEY P ( 2018 ) . Modes of UK Executive-Legislative Relations Revisited . Political Quarterly vol. Early View Online ,
Evans J, Arzheimer K, Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2017 ) . Candidate localness and voter choice in the 2015 General Election in England . Political Geography vol. 59 , 61 - 71 .
Cowley P, Campbell, R, Vivyan, N, Wagner, M ( 2016 ) . Legislator dissent as a valence signal . British Journal of Political Science vol. 49 , ( 1 ) 105 - 128 .
Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2015 ) . The British General Election of 2015 . Palgrave Macmillan
COWLEY PJ, Russell M ( 2015 ) . The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: the 'parliamentary state' and the empirical evidence . Governance: an international journal of policy, administration, and institution vol. 29 , ( 1 ) 121 - 137 .
COWLEY PJ ( 2014 ) . In the Brown Stuff?: Labour backbench dissent under Gordon Brown, 2007-2010’ . Contemporary British History