Representative democracy, Part Two: Can it work?
In the second of 2 parts, Bob Bater discusses how voting could be made fairer. Could a simple variation on...
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Representative democracy, Part One: Does it work?
With public disaffection with politics at its highest level ever, an overhaul of our voting system is long overdue. What...
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Party funding: An honourable activity?
Bob proposes ‘Democracy Vouchers’ as a radical way to put an end to the abuses inherent in the current free-for-all...
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Repairing our broken democracy: PR and beyond
Citizens' Assemblies enable a more effective representation for communities than unrepresentative MPs.
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