The Election 2010 blog is asking ‘what election was that‘? “The opening book in the ‘Nuffield’ election series – The British General Election of 1945 – lists a series of ‘named’ elections: 1874, when the Liberals went down in a flood of gin and beer; the Midlothian election of 1880; the Khaki election of 1900; [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Elections’
India votes!
Over the next month or so, the worlds biggest democracy will go to the polls. That’s over 700 million voters. Here are some photos over on Flickr: Promoting positivity about democracy in Hyderabad. I love the pride with which some of the photographers annotate their pictures – a satisfaction in participation. Note the marks on the [...]
Do voters choose their representatives wisely?
Here’s a really good post that superimposes the work of Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill onto the John Sergeant / Strictly Come Dancing débâcle. Chris asks: Do we necessarily pick the best people as elected representatives? Is this a bad thing? Chris concludes that it shouldn’t be a bad thing, but that our [...]