The Olympic Games and Politics

The Olympic Games and Politics

BACKGROUND Historically, Opinion Polls have shown that most of us think that there is too much political interference in the Olympic Games (90% agree in 1990), but most of us admit that it’s difficult to keep politics out (50% in 1980). In the last 60 years the...
Surveying public opinion towards Britain’s nuclear weapons

Surveying Britain’s relations with the EU and the USA

Ben Clements Ben Clements is Associate Professor in Politics, in the School of History, Politics and International Relations. University of Leicester. His research interests include British public opinion towards foreign and defence policy in the post-war period. He...
Is support for capital punishment growing?

Is support for capital punishment growing?

Arguments against the death penalty had been advanced in the 1950s, with a particular boost for abolition resulting from the case of Ruth Ellis, a young mother who had murdered her unfaithful lover in 1955. The Tories reduced the number of offences carrying the death...