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ERS in the Press – October 2020

This month has seen a renewed interest in proportional representation...

Current Affairs Commentary
2019 must be the last election with voters left in the dark

As the Scottish Government closes the ‘dark ads’...

For too long now, online political campaigning in Britain has gone effectively...

Current Affairs Commentary

Manifesto for Democracy: Education for the future

Education is key to ensuring that newly enfranchised voters understand...

Current Affairs Commentary

Manifesto for democracy: A Stronger Senedd

The Senedd looks very different to when it was first...

Current Affairs Commentary

Tackling online harms to our democracy must be...

Last week, the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and...

Current Affairs Commentary

Democracy and ‘deterrence’: How out-of-date campaign rules leave...

Presidential elections tend to highlight the best and worst of...

Current Affairs Commentary

Does PR mean coalitions? As New Zealand shows...

The New Zealand Labour party are celebrating a landslide win,...

Around the World

Voters risk being locked out – unless this...

When the ‘virtual Parliament’ was launched at the end of...

Current Affairs Commentary
Just 25 percent of attainers are registered

This simple change could help bring in the...

Rather than putting up bureaucratic barriers to engaging with politics,...

Current Affairs Commentary
Over nine million are estimated to be missing from the register

Parties can back this simple change today to...

A cross-party group of peers are backing an amendment to...

Current Affairs Commentary

Are Guernsey about to hold the strangest election in...

On 7 October, voters in Guernsey will head to the...

Around the World
It’s time for parties to open up about who is running for office

Government must do more to ‘level up politics’...

Despite some gains in the last general election, women and...

Current Affairs Commentary