Wonk-blogger Will Davies has an excellent post up here. Quoting the Communities in Control White Paper as follows…
We believe that the causes of political disengagement, while complex, can be distilled to a dominant factor: a sense of powerlessness on the part of most citizens that their voices are not being heard, their views not listened to, [...]
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There’s a very good article over at Westminster Wisdom about the longevity of the US two-party system - a dominance of only two largely unchanged political parties since 1860 - “a record unmatched by any other Democracy.”
A comparison with the UK, in which the period from 1945 until the late 1960s marked a fairly rigid [...]
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On proportional systems of voting, and how they can have a direct impact upon the way that social issues are addressed:
“Proportional representation correlates with more welfare, reduced corruption, less crime, and a host of other social benefits. The need for consensus among a number of groups with drastically different agendas forces government to be more [...]
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