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Manifesto for Democracy: Education for the future

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

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Manifesto for democracy: A Stronger Senedd

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

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ERS Cymru 2021 manifesto preview

ERS Cymru’s 2021 Manifesto for Democracy

In just over six short months voters in Wales will...

ERS Cymru
My experience in the Australian Capital Territory has changed my mind

Westminster could learn a lot from the Australian...

Could Australia’s capital show the rest of Australia and Westminster...

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Tackling online harms to our democracy must be...

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

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Democracy and ‘deterrence’: How out-of-date campaign rules leave...

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

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

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

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Voters risk being locked out – unless this...

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

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Early voting doesn’t have to mean long queues

Two news stories stood out this week. As early voting...

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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,...

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New Zealand MMP song

New Zealand’s MMP electoral system: how does it...

New Zealand actor Jack Buchanan explains how MMP works in...

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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...

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