Rules on election deposits create an uneven playing field and protect the interests of the largest parties
Wilks-Heeg, S., Blick, A. & Crone, S.
(2013).
Rules on election deposits create an uneven playing field and protect the interests of the largest parties.
Evidence suggests a multi-party system is slowly emerging in UK politics, but our electoral rules may be impeding its development. In the 2012 audit of UK democracy, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Andrew Blick, and Stephen Crone considered the requirements for candidates to pay a deposit in order to stand for election, and showed how these had a disproportionate impact on small parties.
| Item Type | Online resource |
|---|---|
| Copyright holders | © 2013 The Author(s) |
| Departments | LSE |
| Date Deposited | 15 Jun 2017 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81379 |