Add to ORKGStuart Wilks-Heeg looks at the history of the ‘hung parliament’. The related paper ‘Governing without majorities: coming to terms with balanced Parliaments in UK politics’ is now available from Democratic Audit
This May’s General Election saw the end of the first full coalition in post-war British politics, be...
The general elections of 2017 and 2010 produced hung parliaments in which no single party could comm...
The House of Lords has been rising in profile in academic, political, and popular narratives. Whilst...
The British media, and Tory and Labour politicians, often treat a parliament with no overall majorit...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
Concern about political disengagement is prevalent in British politics, and this article seeks to ex...
Just how strong is the Conservatives mandate? With only 24.7% of eligible voters opting to support t...
Explanations for the decline in political disengagement often focus on what can be loosely termed th...
© The Author [2012]. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distr...
Elections in majoritarian states are supposed to produce single-party majority governments. However,...
The modern evolution of the Westminster system of government has left Parliament with an ambiguous a...
A spirited argument has broken out on Democratic Audit UK and on other blogs regarding the implicati...
The UK Parliament in recent decades has seen significant structural and behavioural changes that hav...
Twenty five years s on from the first publication of The Reform of Parliament much has changed and y...
On 13 July 2021, the House of Commons voted to rescind the English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) sta...
This May’s General Election saw the end of the first full coalition in post-war British politics, be...
The general elections of 2017 and 2010 produced hung parliaments in which no single party could comm...
The House of Lords has been rising in profile in academic, political, and popular narratives. Whilst...
The British media, and Tory and Labour politicians, often treat a parliament with no overall majorit...
The long periods between 1945 and 1970, and 1979 to 2010 proved that the British political system is...
Concern about political disengagement is prevalent in British politics, and this article seeks to ex...
Just how strong is the Conservatives mandate? With only 24.7% of eligible voters opting to support t...
Explanations for the decline in political disengagement often focus on what can be loosely termed th...
© The Author [2012]. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distr...
Elections in majoritarian states are supposed to produce single-party majority governments. However,...
The modern evolution of the Westminster system of government has left Parliament with an ambiguous a...
A spirited argument has broken out on Democratic Audit UK and on other blogs regarding the implicati...
The UK Parliament in recent decades has seen significant structural and behavioural changes that hav...
Twenty five years s on from the first publication of The Reform of Parliament much has changed and y...
On 13 July 2021, the House of Commons voted to rescind the English Votes for English Laws (EVEL) sta...
This May’s General Election saw the end of the first full coalition in post-war British politics, be...
The general elections of 2017 and 2010 produced hung parliaments in which no single party could comm...
The House of Lords has been rising in profile in academic, political, and popular narratives. Whilst...