A new special issue of Policy Studies is out now on Governance and Public Administration in China. You can read the introduction for free here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01442872.2022.2054091 The full special issue is here: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cpos20/43/3?nav=tocList

Only days before the 2022 May elections, new laws have been rushed through parliament, with amendments and approval (Royal Assent) occuring within the space of less than 24 hours. This means that in future, elections will be very different. The government has pushed through changes which it says will ensure greater protection against election fraud,…Read more How the Elections Act is changing UK elections

The Elections Bill is working it's way through the UK Parliament and some of the reforms would remove independence from the Electoral Commission, by allowing the government to set 'Strategy and Policy Statement' which the Commission would have to follow. I spoke to John Pienaar on Times Radio, explaining the background and the problem. For…Read more The UK Elections Bill will remove the Electoral Commission’s independence

The Electoral Integrity Project has issued a call for papers for the online only Global Electoral Integrity Conference in July 2022. The call for papers is for 1 March 2022 For more information, please see: https://www.electoralintegrityproject.com/july-2022-international-eip-workshop

The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust have commissioned Paul Bernal and I to look at the topic of UK Electoral Data. The electoral process generates enormous volumes of data. The widespread availability of the data is important for democratic participation. It enables patterns of (non)participation to be traced and interventions to be developed to encourage turnout…Read more UK Electoral Data

We have a new podcast series coming soon. It will feature ideas from around the globe on how to improve elections around the globe. Listen to the trailer and then follow new episodes by searching 'how to improve elections' on Spotify, Amazon Music and other outlets. https://electoralintegrityproject.podbean.com/

There has long been considerable interest in how to promote democracy. Little academic literature has considered the attempts to promote best practices informationally via gray literature. This new article seeks to address this. It uses mixed methods (download data from a major IGO and process tracing) to provide a model for understanding how documents on…Read more Informational Democracy Promotion