Democratic Audit UK

Erik Asplund, Toby James and Alistair Clark audit the additional costs countries are facing to run safe and accessible elections during the Covid-19 pandemic. They argue it is vital that election...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/07/14/electoral-officials-need-more-money-to-run-elections-during-covid-19/

Clodagh Harris and Ian Hughes argue that, as established democracies face numerous short- and long-term crises, we must re-imagine democratic institutions to be more inclusive, participatory and ...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/06/18/the-covid-19-pandemic-has-exposed-why-we-urgently-need-to-re-imagine-democracy/

Nick Dickinson draws on previous inquiries to discuss what a public one into the Covid-19 crisis may look like. He concludes that, while an inquiry into the government’s response may be necessa...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/05/12/if-there-is-a-public-inquiry-into-covid-19-what-will-it-look-like/

In Peter Shore: Labour’s Forgotten Patriot, Kevin Hickson, Jasper Miles and Harry Taylor looks back at the ‘lost Eurosceptic tradition’ within the Labour Party’s history by examining the ...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/05/09/book-review-peter-shore-labours-forgotten-patriot-by-kevin-hickson-jasper-miles-and-harry-taylor/

Independence referendums are comparatively rare – and even more so when conducted without the approval of the relevant central government. Jaume López and Marc Sanjaume-Calvet assess the case ...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/05/07/the-case-of-catalonia-understanding-the-political-use-of-de-facto-independence-referendums/

Chris Game assesses the efficacy of one of Parliament’s most antiquated procedures, the Private Members’ Bill, and finds that, though they have proliferated to little effect, in some notable ...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/05/01/how-private-members-legislation-improved-local-government-social-value/

Ahead of each UK election, there is a rush to get people registered to vote, and confusion about who is already registered. In a new report Toby James and Paul Bernal set out how to improve the s...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/04/29/it-is-time-for-automatic-voter-registration-in-the-uk/

Stephen Holden Bates, Stephen McKay and Mark Goodwin assess the gender balance on the newly elected select committees, and their chairs, and find there have been clear improvements in some areas....

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/04/27/bedding-down-treading-water-and-taking-two-steps-forward-gender-equality-and-the-2019-20-house-of-commons-select-committee-elections/

Making use of cross-country European survey data that was fielded both before and after Covid-19 lockdowns were implemented, André Blais, Damien Bol, Marco Giani and Peter Loewen find that suppo...

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/04/23/covid-19-lockdowns-early-evidence-suggests-political-support-and-trust-in-democracy-has-increased/

Lee Elliot Major and Stephen Machin propose reforms and urgent actions to tackle economic and educational inequalities in the UK.

https://www.democraticaudit.com/2020/04/22/covid-19-is-increasing-the-divide-in-life-chances-between-rich-and-poor/