It’s Official! Everyone (apart from the Home Office) who has looked at the elections for police and crime commissioners (PCCs)...
Last week politicians in Scotland were queuing up to call for more power to be exercised at local level. But it...
It’s International Women’s Day. And it seemed the right time to show just how badly women are faring in Welsh public...
In 2007 Scotland began using the Single Transferable Vote (STV) for local government elections. The First Past the Post system...
At first glance, UK local government statistics aren’t exactly the most exciting topic for a blog. But they’re really important...
A few weeks ago, Electoral Reform Society Wales gave evidence to the Communities, Equality and Local Government Committee about the...
Another day, another disaster. We now hear that £350,000 worth of ballot papers are headed for the shredder. The farce that...
As the first stage in a yearlong process to imagine what a ‘Good Scottish Democracy’ might look like we asked...
Women’s representation in government has always appeared to matter to the Prime Minister. Back in his 2005 acceptance speech as...
And so it’s come to pass. After all the gossip the government has finally withdrawn the House of Lords Reform bill....
Ireland currently ranks 87 in the world for gender representation in politics with just 15.1% of Irish parliamentarians being women....
Yesterday, the Labour Party became the first party to finalise its candidates for the 41 Police and Crime Commissioners (PCCs) to be...