As the moving vans deliver the next residents of the White House into their new home, it is worth looking...
What does democracy look like in a pandemic? It’s a question that came up a lot last year – and...
The experience of the covid-19 crisis has served to underline and strengthen the case ERS Scotland has long been making...
Despite the difficulties of 2020, the ERS kept up the pressure and make the case for political reform in a...
While in the UK the government has recently threatened our independent elections watchdog with abolition if it cannot be ‘radically...
A little-known non-departmental public body, the House of Lords Appointments Commission (HOLAC), has recently been thrust into the spotlight, following...
Toby James, University of East Anglia and Alistair Clark, Newcastle University Which activities are essential during a pandemic? Across England,...
In 1918, a seemingly ordinary by-election in the Australian electoral division of Swan changed Australian federal politics forever. The conservatives...
Just before the 2020 US Presidential election, we asked the question ‘could Trump win the Presidency and lose the popular...
The House of Lords was already bursting at the seams, but the latest batch of appointments from the Prime Minister...
By Akash Thiara, a Placement Student with the Electoral Reform Society from the University of Nottingham. After a long delay,...
Overhauling Parliament’s London-dominated second chamber would help empower the UK’s nations and regions, writes a senior director at the Electoral...