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Police and Crime Commissioners

Electoral Commission slams Police and Crime Commissioner elections

It’s Official!  Everyone (apart from the Home Office) who has looked at the elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs)...

Scottish Public want bigger voice in politics

Last week politicians in Scotland were queuing up to call for more power to be exercised at local level. But it...

The 300 women ‘missing’ from Welsh public life

It’s International Women’s Day. And it seemed the right time to show just how badly women are faring in Welsh public...

STV’s Second Outing

In 2007 Scotland began using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) for local government elections. The First Past the Post system...

Where are the women in local government?

At first glance, UK local government statistics aren’t exactly the most exciting topic for a blog. But they’re really important...

Time to Discuss Local Democracy in Wales

A few weeks ago, Electoral Reform Society Wales gave evidence to the Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee about the...

Police and Crime Commissioners

16 days and counting to an election no one’s heard of…

Another day, another disaster. We now hear that £350,000 worth of ballot papers are headed for the shredder. The farce that...

Politics is too important to be left to the politicians

As the first stage in a yearlong process to imagine what a ‘Good Scottish Democracy’ might look like we asked...

Cameron’s broken promise on Women’s representation

Women’s representation in government has always appeared to matter to the Prime Minister. Back in his 2005 acceptance speech as...

House of Lords

Lords Reform: A failure for Britain’s political class

And so it’s come to pass. After all the gossip the government has finally withdrawn the House of Lords Reform bill....

A bold step forward for women’s representation

Ireland currently ranks 87 in the world for gender representation in politics with just 15.1% of Irish parliamentarians being women....

Police and Crime Commissioners

A fair cop for women? Female Police and Crime Commissioner candidates in less winnable seats

Yesterday, the Labour Party became the first party to finalise its candidates for the 41 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to be...