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

Policy Brief from the Electoral Integrity Project The UK government plans to introduce voter Id requirements into polling stations in Britain as part of the Electoral Integrity Bill. In this Policy Brief from the Electoral Integrity Project you can see what the research says about voter fraud Britain and policy recommendations for preventing a decline…Read more Voter ID in Britain?

The covid pandemic has been a profound challenge to electoral integrity worldwide. Our research project on covid and elections, funded by UKRI, has been tracing developments worldwide and identifying best practices. Country cases are being published regularly, and the case study on Ghana is now available. Download: https://www.idea.int/sites/default/files/managing-elections-under-covid-19-pandemic-conditions-the-case-of-ghana.pdf Read all materials: Elections and Covid-19 —…Read more Covid and Elections – new case study on lessons from Ghana available

The covid pandemic has been a profound challenge to electoral integrity worldwide. Our research project on covid and elections, funded by UKRI, has been tracing developments worldwide and identifying best practices. Country cases are being published regularly, and the case study on Spain is now available. Download: Case study on Spain Read all materials: Elections…Read more Covid and Elections – new case study on lessons from Spain available

(This text is being updated as new measures are announced/clarified). Last updated: 1st March 2020. We now know a lot more about how the local elections in England will take place, this May. There had long been speculation that they would be delayed, with some media reports claiming that a postponement had been decided. The…Read more How will English polling stations compare to international practices, during the pandemic?

My recent book on Comparative Electoral Management is currently free to download on Amazon as a Kindle book. Get it quick, before the flash-sale disappears. Please check Amazon in your respective country, but here is the UK link: Comparative Electoral Management: Performance, Networks and Instruments (Routledge Studies in Elections, Democracy and Autocracy) eBook: James, Toby…Read more Free to download: Comparative Electoral Management