Welcome to the Democratic Audit
Democratic Audit is an independent research organisation which audits democracy and human rights in the UK. We have a small core team of staff and associates and draw on a wider network of scholars, lawyers and others. Our core costs are grant-funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust.
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PublicationsDemocratic Audit has published a wide range of books, reports and briefings since the early 1990s. Use our searchable database to locate our current and past publications.
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A major new UK politics teaching and learning resourceWith the academic year underway, teachers and students of UK politics will find much of interest in our comprehensive Audit of UK democracy.
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"The Bradford Earthquake": how Bradford West was wonNew Democratic Audit report on the 2012 Bradford West by-election and Council elections out on Monday 28 January 2012.
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Time to tackle the growth of the 'payroll vote'Stuart Wilks-Heeg, 18 October 2012 Note: This article was amended on 23 October 2012 to clarify both how the 'payroll vote' is defined and the use of the term 'paid government posts'. In ou...
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- 13 February 2013 - The Malaysian Insider: The role of Parliament
- 04 February 2013 - The World Tonight (BBC Radio 4): Lewis Baston on the importance of the impending Eastleigh by-election to all 3 main parties (30:50 onwards)
- 29 January 2013 - The Guardian (Northener Blog): Has Labour learned lessons from Bradford West byelection defeat?
- 29 January 2013 - BBC Radio 5 Live: Stuart Wilks-Heeg on the Commons vote to delay boundary changes (from 1hr, 10 min, 40 secs)
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- 26 January 2013 - "The Bradford Earthquake": how Bradford West was won: UPDATE: MONDAY 28 JANUARY 2013 - FULL REPORT AND EXECUTIVE SUMMARY NOW AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD ...
- 18 October 2012 - Is this the biggest government ever?: In our latest full Audit of democracy in the UK, we highlighted our concern that the size of the ...
- 21 September 2012 - A major new UK politics teaching and learning resource: Our fourth complete Audit of democracy in the UK was published in July 2012 and launched via excl...
- 18 October 2011 - Who Governs Merseyside: Results of the Public Vote: Merseyside residents were invited to vote either following our well-attended first event on 'Who ...
