Journal Articles

Horncastle, W.C.R. (2023) ‘Scandals and Competition as Primary Drivers of Reform? A Congruence Analysis of Australian Political Finance (1980–2020)’, Party Politics, Online First, pp.1-17. doi: 10.1177/13540688231202600.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2022) ‘Model based clustering of political finance regimes: Developing the regulation of political finance indicator’, Electoral Studies, 79 (1) pp.1-12. doi: 0.1016/j.electstud.2022.102524. Winner of the 2023 Michael K. O’Rourke Best Publication Award

 

Horncastle, W.C.R. (2018) ‘Marx’s Renaissance: Explaining the Growth of the left in the UK and beyond’, Political Insight, 9 (3) pp.16-19. doi: 10.1177/2041905818796575.

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Published Datasets

Horncastle, W.C.R. (2022) Regulation of Political Finance Indicator (RoPFI) v1.0. Available at: www.ropfi.com

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Selected Conference Papers

Horncastle, W.C.R. and McMenamin, I. (2024) ‘Democratic Institutions and the Regulation of Political Finance’, ECPR General Conference, University College Dublin, 12-15 August.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. and Paulissen, T. (2024) ‘Political Finance and Direct Democracy: Introducing the ‘Referendum Campaign Finance Regulation Index’ (RefCFRI)’, After (Neo-) Liberalism – Towards and Alternative Paradigm: 74th PSA Annual International Conference, University of Strathclyde, 25-27 March.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2023) ‘Towards an Integrated Theory of Political Finance Reform: Process Tracing the Diverse Cases of Canada, New Zealand, and Saint Lucia’, Political Futures: 73rd PSA Annual International Conference, University of Liverpool, 3-5 April.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2022) ‘Competition, Organization or Ideology? Process Tracing the Development of Australian Political Finance Reforms (1980—2020)’, REPRESENT Mini-Workshop, University of Nottingham, 10 November.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2021) ‘Electoral Competition or Party Ideology? Examining the Incentives Behind Political Finance Reform’, Random Access Memories. PSA Early Careers Network, 5-9 July. Available at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVMGBH_lkis

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2020) ‘Patterns of Political Finance: Explaining Political Finance reforms in liberal democracies’, Research Methods Seminar Series. School of Government, University of Birmingham, 25 March.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2019) ‘Comparative political finance: Towards a unified approach for measuring and categorising political finance systems’, Making Sense of Contemporary Politics. PSA Early Careers Network, University of Exeter, 24 June.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2018) ‘Assessing the current state of the Left in the UK: how did we get here and what does the future hold?’, The Future of the Left in the UK and Germany’ Symposium. Institute for German Studies, University of Birmingham, 10 October.

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2018) ‘Neoliberalism, Political Finance, and Inequality: A mixed-methods investigation into the relationship between political finance regulation and income inequality’, A Platform for the Researchers of Tomorrow. Westmere House, University of Birmingham, 15 March.

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Guest Blog Entries & Working Papers

Horncastle, W.C.R. (2022) ‘A novel dataset of global political finance regimes’, ECPR The Loop, 10 October. Available at: https://theloop.ecpr.eu/a-novel-dataset-of-global-political-finance-regimes/

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2021) ‘The Parliament of New Zealand’, PSA Parl: Parliamentary Overviews, 20 April. Available at: https://psaparliaments.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/New-Zealand.pdf

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2020) ‘The 2020 election was the most expensive in history, but campaign spending does not always lead to success’, LSE US Politics and Policy, 27 November. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/11/27/the-2020-election-was-the-most-expensive-in-history-but-campaign-spending-does-not-always-lead-to-success/

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2020) ‘The scale of US election spending explained in five graphs’, The Conversation, 15 October. Available at: https://theconversation.com/the-scale-of-us-election-spending-explained-in-five-graphs-130651

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2020) ‘Ten years on, the legacy of Citizens United still threatens representative democracy in the United States’, LSE US Politics and Policy, 21 January. Available at: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/usappblog/2020/01/21/ten-years-on-the-legacy-of-citizens-united-still-threatens-representative-democracy-in-the-united-states/

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Horncastle, W.C.R. (2019) Measurement Tools for Comparative Political Finance: Excessive Reductionism or Valuable Simplicity? Electoral Regulation Research Network and Democratic Audit of Australia Working Paper No.54.

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