If the rumours are correct, Gordon Brown is about to announce his intention to promote a new voting system for Parliamentary elections in the UK. His choice is said to be the Alternative Vote (AV) system. It looks like the Vote For A Change campaign will get their way and there will be a referendum [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Electoral reform’
Benchmarking and 'empowerment' are two different things
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 [...]
Two party systems
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 [...]