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Who Governs Merseyside: Results of the Public Vote
Merseyside residents were invited to vote either following our well-attended first event on 'Who governs Merseyside?’, held at the Bluecoat on 6 October 2011, or on-line via www.democraticaudit.c...
Who Governs Merseyside? Event and Briefing Paper
Update: 7 October 2011 - the public vote on how has the power to shape public policy on Merseyside is now open (until noon on 14 October) Update: 5 October 2011- download our Who Governs Mersey...
Corporate and Financial Dominance in Britain’s Democracy
"In this compelling and unmissable analysis, David Beetham has expertly outlined how and why democracy is subservient to corporate power, and finance, in the UK" – Will Straw, founding editor of ...
Democratic Audit modelling of boundary changes
Democratic Audit has modelled how constituency boundaries could change using the new rules contained in the Parliamentary Voting System and Constituencies Act 2011. The Act will see the number of c...
AV Referendum Briefing
On the eve of the referendum on reform of the electoral system, Democratic Audit has published an AV Referendum Briefing. The Briefing reviews the evidence about how well the UK's current electoral...
AV Talk at Al-Ghazali Centre
On the 5th May voters in the UK will be asked in a referendum whether they want to change the electoral system used to elect MPs to the House of Commons. Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg Executive Director...
Democratic Audit & Federal Trust Debate on Electoral Reform
In light of the forthcoming referendum on electoral reform, Democratic Audit and the Federal Trust have organised a debate structured around contributions from three expert speakers each taking con...
DA's Director appears before select committee
Stuart Wilks-Heeg gave evidence on the 3rd March to the House Of Commons Political and Constitutional Reform Committee on the Constitutional implications of the Cabinet Manual. The session can be v...
Funding Political Parties in Great Britain: a Pathway to Reform
Democratic Audit has published a new report: Funding Political Parties in Great Britain: A Pathway to Reform. Further details and additional data and analysis are available on the report's companio...
Democratic Audit study for BBC Newsnight
Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg and Stephen Crone have completed a study for BBC Newsnight. Projecting the Impact of 'Reduce and Equalise' looks at where constituencies could be lost if government plans to re...
Democracy is Dead, Long Live Democracy
Dr Stuart Wilks Heeg (Director of Democratic Audit) has written an essay entitled Democracy is Dead, Long Live Democracy, as part of a series of twenty essays exploring the future of the public and...
New book on the power of the British Prime Minister
Andrew Blick's (Senior Research Fellow, Democratic Audit) new book Premiership: the development, nature and power of the office of the British prime minister, written jointly with Prof. George Jone...
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