What went wrong in the 2015 election?
View the preliminary findings from the inquiry in to the polls ordered by the British Polling Council. Its terms of reference and methodology can be viewed on the website. The BBC has also been discussing the topic this week. Also released this week Margaret Beckettis internal investigation of the Labour Party failure. Useful response on this […]
Coming soon: 2016 US elections
RealClearPolitics: Election 2016 This site from RealClearPolitics offers readers daily updates on polls, interviews, speeches, and other news related to the 2016 election. It currently includes polls relating to the Republican and Democratic nominations.
Spanish Elections on Sunday
A look forward at the possible outcome of Spain’s elections on Sunday. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/16/spain-election-guide-parties-electoral-system-podemos-and-ciudadanos
Africa in Fact
Good Governance Africa is an organisation based in Africa which aims to improve government performance on the continent. Its website offers free access to its Africa in Fact publication for the last few years which contains articles discussing governance and government management in Africa. Other useful resources on standards of African governance include: Ibrahim Index of African […]
Examining UK government performance
Just released from the Institute for Government the Annual Whitehall Monitor 2015. This provides statistics and visual data on government department size, staffing impact and transparency. There are 163 data tables. Last month the Alliance for Useful Evidence released a new framework tool to measure government departments on how transparent their use of evidence is […]
Register to vote
Register to vote in UK national, local and EU elections. More information at http://www.aboutmyvote.co.uk/register-to-vote and http://www.ucu.org.uk/yourvoteisyourvoice
Gender, Inequality and Power
The Gender, Inequality and Power Commission’s final report: ‘Confronting Gender Inequality’ finds evidence of continuing inequality in its four areas of concern: Economy, Law, Politics, and Media/Culture. The 2015 sex and power report by the Fawcett society finds continuing underepresentation of British women as MPs and in key government roles in the UK in 2015.
Catalan Elections
Get links to resources covering the results and their implication for any possible independence from this elections blog. They include newspapers, polls, government websites and academic comment and analysis in English and Spanish.
Labour Leadership elections
With the election of Jeremy Corby- The New Policy Network has just published a new essay – After New Labour: The Corbyn surge and the future of social democracy in Britain by Andrew Gamble a professor of politics at the University of Sheffield. Another recent publication on a related theme is from IPPR Learning the right […]
Money, Politics and Finance
New site with data on politics money and campaign finance worldwide. It is a collaboration between the Sunlight Foundation, Global Integrity and the Electoral Integrity Project. It includes case studies of political finance regulation. Also a new MPT dataset which ranks and documents the regulation and enforcement of political finance laws in 54 nations worldwide. […]
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