Add to ORKGEvidence suggests a multi-party system is slowly emerging in UK politics, but our electoral rules may be impeding its development. In the 2012 audit of UK democracy, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Andrew Blick, and Stephen Crone considered the requirements for candidates to pay a deposit in order to stand for election, and showed how these had a disproportionate impact on small parties
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The UK government announced on July 16 that it had decided to end the transition period to Individua...
Concerns have been raised that insufficient funding has been affecting the delivery of elections in ...
The 2015 General Election produced an unexpected majority government, however it did so despite the ...
Voters are again looking beyond the traditional two-party system and look set to put paid to a famou...
A crucial part of any democracy is allowing new parties to form and contest elections. However, ther...
The Attorney General Dominic Grieve MP has apologised for controversial remarks about corruption amo...
Duverger’s law states that a first-past-the-post electoral system – such as the one in use in the UK...
The United Kingdom general election takes place next week, with current polling predicting no clear ...
Election campaigns are an expensive business. In this post, Jess Garland discusses a new report on p...
The 2010 general election was notable in multiple respects, and will be recorded by history as the e...
In this post, Jack Blumenau, Simon Hix, and Tony Travers argue that recent changes to the electoral ...
The effectiveness of campaign spending is a hotly contested issue. Much of that debate concentrates ...
Parties’ local campaign efforts can yield electoral dividends in plurality elections; in general, t...
Whilst the public funding of political parties is the norm in western democracies, its comprehensive...
The First Past The Post electoral system exacerbates divisions between the different parts of Britai...
The UK government announced on July 16 that it had decided to end the transition period to Individua...
Concerns have been raised that insufficient funding has been affecting the delivery of elections in ...
The 2015 General Election produced an unexpected majority government, however it did so despite the ...