13 Feb 2019
Electoral Reform Society: Martin Moore, Director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Policy Institute at King’s College London and Damian Tambini, Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE wrote this article as part of our report Reining in the Political ‘Wild […]
Read more13 Feb 2019
Electoral Reform Society: Tom Hawthorn, Head of Policy at the Electoral Commission contributed this article for our recent report Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century.
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Electoral Reform Society: The Rt Hon Dame Cheryl Gillan MP contributed this piece as the foreword to our report Reining in the Political ‘Wild West’: Campaign Rules for the 21st Century.
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Electoral Reform Society: Deliberative forms of democracy are certainly coming into fashion. From the Irish Citizens’ Assembly that led to the historic repeal of their constitutional ban of abortion, to that which informed the Health and Social Care Committee’s recent report on future funding options, the government is looking to citizens to solve otherwise intractable issues.
Read more3 Jan 2019
Electoral Reform Society: If 2018 has shown us anything, it’s that the debates over the state of our democracy are as crucial as ever. From the Cambridge Analytica scandal to the controversial ID trials at the local elections, the question of how the voices of voters are heard, used and interpreted by the powerful has been […]
Read more15 Oct 2018
Electoral Reform Society: This week marks the 50th anniversary of a major event in the Society’s history and the history of the campaign for fair votes.
Read more12 Oct 2018
Electoral Reform Society: With news that the Democratic Unionist Party’s 10 MPs are considering voting down the budget over Brexit divisions, the usual arguments are being rolled out about the ‘tail wagging the dog’ during coalitions.
Read more27 Sep 2018
Electoral Reform Society: Since Labour’s Democracy Review was launched last year, the party’s internal structures have been exhaustively debated, picked over, and now amended.
Read more21 Sep 2018
Electoral Reform Society: The 150th Anniversary Congress of the TUC was both a celebration of the past – and a chance to look to the future of trade unions in Britain.
Read more21 Sep 2018
Electoral Reform Society: After spending a long weekend at Liberal Democrat conference, I can confirm that EU berets are firmly in fashion, you should never mention the M (moderate) word in their company and there is nothing they like better than a sing along. Here are the three other things we’ve learned at Liberal Democrat Conference.
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