23 Apr 2019
Electoral Reform Society – Large parts of England are effectively democracy deserts, with hundreds of thousands of potential voters denied real choice in this May’s elections.
Read more17 Apr 2019
Electoral Reform Society – Last week the government launched a consultation into tackling ‘online harm’. It’s the first step towards dealing with the tech barons of the new ‘wild west’. But ministers can’t let themselves off the hook just yet.
Read more22 Mar 2019
Electoral Reform Society – For far too many of its members, the second chamber of our Parliament is a private members’ club. The House of Lords – the UK’s revising chamber – is packed to the brim with appointees – and they have a huge sway over our country.
Read more22 Mar 2019
Electoral Reform Society – Last summer, ministers announced genuinely exciting plans for piloting ‘deliberative democracy’ across the UK. The plan was to use a series of citizens’ assemblies to engage people with politics, to tackle complex and contested topics, and to break through local political deadlock.
Read more13 Mar 2019
Electoral Reform Society: This week the ballots dropped for the world’s most elitist election. A contest to select a new hereditary Crossbench peer to sit in the House of Lords.
Read more13 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.
Read more12 Feb 2019
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.
Read more4 Feb 2019
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 […]
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