Publications: PROF Philip Cowley

Barnfield M, Pike K, Cowley P ( 2025 ) . Long‐Term Time Horizons and Support for Public Investment . Policy Studies Journal

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 ( 2021 ) . How to Get Information Out of Members of Parliament (Without Being Told Off by the Speaker) . Political Studies Review vol. 20 , ( 2 ) 236 - 242 .

Wager A, Bale T, Cowley P, Menon A ( 2021 ) . The Death of May’s Law: Intra- and Inter-Party Value Differences in Britain’s Labour and Conservative Parties . Political Studies vol. 70 , ( 4 ) 939 - 961 .

Campbell R, Cowley P, Vivyan N, Wagner M ( 2019 ) . Why Friends and Neighbors? Explaining the Electoral Appeal of Local Roots . The Journal of Politics vol. 81 , ( 3 ) 937 - 951 .

Muroki M, Cowley P ( 2019 ) . Getting Better, Slowly. Ethnicity, Gender and Party in London's Local Government . The Political Quarterly vol. 90 , ( 1 ) 117 - 123 .

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . The British General Election of 2017 .

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . Not Going According to Plan . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . Targeted (and Untargeted) Local Campaigning . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . The Election in Retrospect . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . The Liberal Democrats and Others . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . Towards a Landslide . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2018 ) . Wrong-Footed Again: The Polls . The British General Election of 2017 , Springer Nature

Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2018 ) . The impact of parental status on the visibility and evaluations of politicians . The British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 20 , ( 3 ) 753 - 769 .

Russell M, Cowley P ( 2018 ) . Modes of UK Executive–Legislative Relations Revisited . The Political Quarterly vol. 89 , ( 1 ) 18 - 28 .

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 .

Campbell R, Cowley P, 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 ( 2016 ) . Dead Cats and Bogy Men: The National Campaign . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . Different Scripts Required: Election Night . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . How Hard Can it Be? The Conservatives . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . I’m Afraid There is No Money: Five Years of Coalition . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . Margin of Error: The Polls . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . The British General Election of 2015 . Springer Nature

Cowley P, Stuart M, Trenner-Lyle T ( 2016 ) . The parliamentary party . David Cameron and Conservative Renewal the Limits of Modernisation ,

Cowley P, Kavanagh D ( 2016 ) . Where to Drop the Bombs: The Constituency Battle . The British General Election of 2015 , Springer Nature

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2015 ) . Whipping Them in: Role-Playing Party Cohesion with a Chief Whip . Journal of Political Science Education vol. 11 , ( 2 ) 190 - 203 .

Russell M, Cowley P ( 2015 ) . The Policy Power of the Westminster Parliament: The “Parliamentary State” and the Empirical Evidence . Governance vol. 29 , ( 1 ) 121 - 137 .

Cowley P ( 2015 ) . The coalition and Parliament . The Coalition Effect, 2010–2015 , Cambridge University Press (CUP)

Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2015 ) . Attitudes to Moonlighting Politicians: Evidence from the United Kingdom . Journal of Experimental Political Science vol. 2 , ( 1 ) 63 - 72 .

Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2014 ) . REBELLION VERSUS LOYALTY, SHIRKING VERSUS WORKING: A NOTE ON FRAMING PARLIAMENTARY BEHAVIOUR . Representation vol. 50 , ( 4 ) 421 - 427 .

Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2014 ) . The representation of women in politics, addressing the supply side: Public attitudes to job-sharing parliamentarians . British Politics vol. 9 , ( 4 ) 430 - 449 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2014 ) . The Effect of Teaching Parliamentary Studies on Students' Knowledge and Attitudes: A Pilot Study . Politics vol. 35 , ( 2 ) 201 - 212 .

Cowley P ( 2014 ) . Descriptive Representation and Political Trust: A Quasi-natural Experiment Utilising Ignorance . Journal of Legislative Studies vol. 20 , ( 4 ) 573 - 587 .

Cowley P ( 2014 ) . The absence of War? New labour in parliament . British Elections and Parties Review ,

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2014 ) . In the Brown Stuff?: Labour Backbench Dissent Under Gordon Brown, 2007–10 . Contemporary British History vol. 28 , ( 1 ) 1 - 23 .

Campbell R, Cowley P ( 2013 ) . What Voters Want: Reactions to Candidate Characteristics in a Survey Experiment . Political Studies vol. 62 , ( 4 ) 745 - 765 .

Cowley P ( 2013 ) . Why not ask the audience? Understanding the public's representational priorities . British Politics vol. 8 , ( 2 ) 138 - 163 .

COWLEY P, STUART M ( 2012 ) . The Cambusters: The Conservative European Union Referendum Rebellion of October 2011 . The Political Quarterly vol. 83 , ( 2 ) 402 - 406 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2011 ) . Response to Alison Plumb and David Marsh . Parliamentary Affairs vol. 64 , ( 4 ) 777 - 780 .

Childs S, Cowley P ( 2011 ) . The Politics of Local Presence: Is there a Case for Descriptive Representation? . Political Studies vol. 59 , ( 1 ) 1 - 19 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2010 ) . Where has all the trouble gone? British intra-party parliamentary divisions during the Lisbon ratification . British Politics vol. 5 , ( 2 ) 133 - 148 .

RUSSELL M, COWLEY P, RIDDELL P, FISHER J, ATKINS L, WATSON J, FRAZER E, HAY C ( 2009 ) . Tony Wright on Doing Politics Differently: the Commentators . The Political Quarterly vol. 80 , ( 4 ) 575 - 588 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2009 ) . Party Rules, OK: Voting in the House of Commons on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill . Parliamentary Affairs vol. 63 , ( 1 ) 173 - 181 .

COWLEY P ( 2009 ) . The Parliamentary Party . The Political Quarterly vol. 80 , ( 2 ) 214 - 221 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2008 ) . There was a Doctor, a Journalist and Two Welshmen: the Voting Behaviour of Independent MPs in the United Kingdom House of Commons, 1997–2007 . Parliamentary Affairs vol. 62 , ( 1 ) 19 - 31 .

COWLEY P, STUART M ( 2004 ) . Still Causing Trouble: The Conservative Parliamentary Party . The Political Quarterly vol. 75 , ( 4 ) 356 - 361 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2003 ) . Labour in Disguise? Liberal Democrat MPs, 1997–2001 . The British Journal of Politics and International Relations vol. 5 , ( 3 ) 393 - 404 .

COWLEY P, CHILDS S ( 2003 ) . Too Spineless to Rebel? New Labour's Women MPs . British Journal of Political Science vol. 33 , ( 3 ) 345 - 365 .

Cowley P, Stuart M ( 2003 ) . In Place of Strife? The PLP in Government, 1997–2001 . Political Studies vol. 51 , ( 2 ) 315 - 331 .