Dr. Edzia Carvalho, Principal Investigator

Dr. Kristi Winters, International Co-Investigator

Joint publications

• Edzia Carvalho and Kristi Winters. 2015. “‘I went with what I always do…’: A qualitative analysis of the effect of ‘Cleggmania’ and vote choice in the 2010 British General Election”, Parliamentary Affairs, 68(2): 423-446. doi: dx.doi.org/10.1093/pa/gst050
• Kristi Winters and Edzia Carvalho. 2013. “2010 British General Election Leader Evaluations: A Case Study using Focus Group Data”, The Qualitative Report, 18(45), 1-21.
• Edzia Carvalho and Kristi Winters. 2014. “The Grounded Theory Method: Popular Perceptions of Party Leaders during the 2010 British General Election”, in SAGE Research Methods Cases. Sage. doi: dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013510259
• Kristi Winters and Edzia Carvalho. 2014. “The Qualitative Election Study of Britain: Qualitative Research using Focus Groups”, in SAGE Research Methods Cases. Sage. doi: dx.doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013509945

Also by Dr. Carvalho

Measuring Human Rights (with Todd Landman) (Routledge, 2009).

Assessing the Quality of Democracy: A Practical Guide (with David Beetham, Todd Landman and Stuart Weir) (Stockholm: International IDEA, 2008). Translated into Spanish (2009), French (2010) and Arabic (2011).

‘Measuring Children’s Rights: An Alternative Approach’, International Journal of Children’s Rights, 16:4 (2008), 545-563

‘Dynamics of a Working Democracy: Representative Politics in a Goa Constituency’ (with Peter R. deSouza, Sushma Pawar and Solano Da Silva), Economic and Political Weekly, 41:16 (2006)

Also by Dr. Winters

Winters, Kristi. 2014.  ‘Scarecrows or Tin Men? Talking About Party Leaders.’ Sex, Lies and the Ballot Box: 50 Things You Need to Know About British Elections. Philip Cowley (Ed) and Robert Ford (Ed). Biteback, London.

Johns, Rob, Kristi Winters, and Rosie Campbell. 2011. ‘My Heart Says One Thing but My Head Says Another? Men, Women, and the Psychology of Partisanship in Britain.’ Gender and Politics, 7:2, pp. 193-222.

Campbell, Rosie, and Kristi Winters. 2008. ‘Understanding men and women’s political interests: evidence from a study of gendered political behaviour,’ Journal of Elections, Public Opinion and Parties, 18:1, pp. 53–74. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a790267472

Winters, Kristi, and Rosie Campbell. 2007. ‘Hearts or Minds: Men, Women and Leader Evaluations in the 2005 General Election’, in D. Wring, J. Green, R. Mortimore and S. Atkins (eds.). Political Communications: The General Election Campaign of 2005. Basingstoke: Palgrave McMillan, pp. 184-202. http://us.macmillan.com/politicalcommunications

Campbell, Rosie, and Kristi Winters. 2006. ‘The British General Election’ in R. Campbell Gender and the Vote in Britain: Beyond the Gender Gap. University of Essex: ECPR, pp. 115–127. http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-9547966-9-3/gender-and-the-vote-in-britain

Research in the media

Campbell, Rosie and Kristi Winters (17 October 2007). ‘The myth of the homogeneous voter.’ Thinking Aloud podcast available at: www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/research/rcampbellvoting/

Campbell, Rosie and Kristi Winters (September 2006). ‘Gender and Voting Behaviour in Britain.’ Westminster Hour podcast available at: www.bbk.ac.uk/polsoc/research/rcampbellvoting/

Doctoral thesis  Sex and gender as sources of heterogeneity in political attitudes and behaviours  by Dr. Kristi Winters is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.

Quantitative dataset: Gender and the Vote in Britain, 2007 (headed by Dr. Rosie Campbell, Birkbeck College, contributions by Kristi Winters)