Posted on March 1, 2009 by Anthony Zacharzewski
Time for a look at Chapter three of the Conservative local government green paper, Shift Control.
This chapter is the section of the green paper that focuses on democracy, so there’s a lot to talk about. The chapter says that a Conservative Government would:
provide citizens in all our large cities with the opportunity to choose [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2009 by Anthony Zacharzewski
Part three of a series of articles looking at the Conservative local government green paper, Shift Control.
This time, chapter two. This chapter is about localism, and promises that a Conservative Government would:
give local residents the power to determine the balance between the level of council tax and the level of services
delivered;
drastically reduce the centrally imposed [...]
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Posted on January 9, 2009 by Paul Evans
If you edit any website or blog, why not make sure that there is a link to the Electoral Commission’s ‘About My Vote‘ website. It encourages people to register and makes it all as easy as possible to do it online. It’s even not that bad from a usability point of view which isn’t a [...]
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Posted on January 7, 2009 by Paul Evans
Before politics stopped being fairly boring in the late summer last year, the book of the year looked like it was going to be Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s Nudge. It’s still worth a look when you need a break from Robert Peston - and one of their areas of interest has been ballot design [...]
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Posted on December 16, 2008 by Paul Evans
(Pronounced ‘Redding’).
The UK Labour Party - like most political parties - has a fairly well-tested ‘Voter ID’ system. This is a means of ensuring that - on election day - they can nag everybody who they think is a Labour voter into the polling booth before polls close.
Essentially, carbon copies of voter lists are [...]
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