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• Why PR might not be right around the corner

  Here is an accessible pre-print chapter written by Adrian Balu on the prospects for electoral reform, and the possible effects on the party system.  It argues that significant electoral reform remains unlikely in the UK. Even if a hung parliament arises, electoral reform may not be initiated; even if electoral reform is initiated, it may not be enacted; even […]

  May 20, 2008
  
  
• The envelopes die in vain

  Amid all the hoo-ha about British MPs expenses - fridges, sofas, and food allowances - what about the electoral advantage of being able to spend over a 100 grand a year digging into your constituency?  Yet as Ron Johnston and Charles Pattie show in this paper, there appears to be no relationship at all between parliamentary […]

  March 19, 2008
  
  

EPOP in the News

• John Curtice on Alistair Darling’s electoral magic
• Philip Cowley on why Lisbon is not Maastricht
• John Curtice on why Northern Rock was not Black Wednesday
• Tony King on why a hung parliament is likely
• Paul Webb on why democracy and party politics go together
• Sarah Childs on women in Parliament

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