Wahlkabine.at is an Austrian voter education project carried out by several key Austrian organisations in the field of political education, mainly the Institute for New Culture Technologies; the Austrian Political Science Association, the Society for Political Enlightenment, and the Department of Political Science, University of Innsbruck. It aims to to increase political participation and voter t...

The Picturing United States History website is a project of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning at the City University of New York Graduate Center. It aims to provide educators with information and resources which can help them use visual materials (photographs, images, political cartoons, prints) to teach American history. It contains a collection of 'lessons in...

Peter Mandelson is an... unusual... political figure. He began his career as an exponent of the blackest of the black political arts. The quintessential back room boy, he was one of the most ruthless of the political spin doctors who jointly founded the New Labour project. Fiercely loyal to Tony Blair, he repressed anti-Labour stories and promoted the New Labour project with a will that one of my ...

If you feel like wearing a political anorak on this sunny bank holiday Monday, then here's a video history of the Conservative Party which the Tories have updated for the launch of the new 'History' section on their website. Alastair Cooke introduces the whole project on the Blue Blog, here. Hat-tip: ConservativeHome

In The British Approach to Counterinsurgency we weighed in on the British Kajaki dam project (for readers unfamiliar with this project visit the links provided).  While brave and effective operations were necessary to deliver large turbines to the dam for electricity generation, we observed that this front in counterinsurgency was merely one, an important one

The EuroVote 2009 study is an academic project lead by PhD candidate Ms Outi Ruusuvirta, of the Department of Government, at the London School of Economics and Political Science which is aiming to investigate voting in the 2009 European Parliament elections in Finland, Ireland and the UK. The project is funded by the Osk. Huttunen Foundation, based in Helsinki, Finland and the Helsingin Sanomat Fo...

A project launched by Uk think tank Demos which will study the ways in which Uk conservatism can deliver progressive policy. Advisers include David Willets, MP and Frank Field MP. The website includes details about the project and access to its discussion papers and reports dealing with topics relating to modern conservative political philosophy.

Josep Colomer is a professor of political science and a life-long member of the American Political Science Association. His regularly weekly blog offers comment and analysis on current political events. This includes discussion of recent elections, economic crises and events from a political perspective, comparative political systems and institutions. Archived messages from 2006 onwards can be vie...

The European Union is slowly trying to rewrite history to its own benefit. We have the President of the Parliament's own little vanity project, the House of European History, which is causing controversy, and we have the Euro Clio project, with its slightly sinister subset Connecting Europe. According to Euro Clio Education policies and regulations are commonly decided by national governments...

One of my little pet hates about the European Union is how it is slowly trying to rewrite history to its own benefit. We have the President of the Parliament's own little vanity project, the European House of History, which Bruno Waterfield Telegraph, and we have the Euro Clio project, with its slightly sinister subset Conecting Europe. Education policies and regulations are commonly decided ...