Items where Author is "Wilks-Heeg, Stuart"
Number of items: 42.
Private funding, party politics and regulatory change:how the British Conservative Party prospered under Labour’s political finance reforms. (2024)
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Hopkin, Jonathan
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Britain’s bloated payroll vote hampers Parliament in keeping a check on the executive.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Conservative members have less influence on policy than those in the other major parties.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Do referendums ever resolve constitutional debates?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Election petitions remain important to the integrity of UK elections, but reforms are urgently needed.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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How far does the UK support the United Nations and respect the international rule of law?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
How the European media drives different views of the European Union.
Hix, Simon and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
In the representation of women in political life, the UK continues to be outperformed by other democracies.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
It remains to be seen whether Parliament is cut out for coalition.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Just 224 large donations from fewer than 60 sources accounted for two fifths of the donation income of the top three parties across a decade of British politics. This is far too narrow a base for the health of UK democracy.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Just 50 ‘donor groups’ have supplied over half of the Conservative party’s declared donation income in the last decade, a fact disguised by legal ‘fame avoidance’ techniques.
Crone, Stephen and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
LSE election experts reflect on the election result.
Bouçek, Françoise and Jones, George W. and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Travers, Tony and Beckett, Charlie and Hosein, Gus and Carrera, Leandro N. and Leunig, Tim
Legal aid cuts may mean excluded members of society are denied access to a vital part of our democratic system.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Crone, Stephen and Blick, Andrew
Lobbyists and corporations have opportunities to exercise significant influence over UK public policy.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
MPs pay has risen sharply since the 1970s – but it is outside earnings that should really concern.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Media coverage in Germany and the UK shows why both countries have radically different views over who should be the next Commission President.
Hix, Simon and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Parliament has relatively weak war powers compared to legislatures in other democracies.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Party campaign financing needs reform.
Hopkin, Jonathan and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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Party funding reforms are overdue in the UK, but they should not be rushed.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Crone, Stephen
Postal voting and electoral fraud.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Protections for the freedom of religion have improved over the last decade.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Crone, Stephen and Blick, Andrew
Reduce and equalise? Why electoral geography matters.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Reduce and equalise?: why electoral geography matters.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Rules on election deposits create an uneven playing field and protect the interests of the largest parties.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Select committee report shows way forward on voter registration.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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Talking sense on Lords reform: why the PSA’s new briefing fills a crucial gap.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
There is still a very long way to go before votes at 16 at general elections becomes a reality.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Time to tackle the growth of the ‘payroll vote’.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
The UK is inconsistent in its support for human rights and democracy overseas.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Unfinished devolution has created constitutional imbalances in the UK.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
Uninventing the ‘hung Parliament’.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Voter ID at British polling stations – learning the right lessons from Northern Ireland.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
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Votes at 16: democracy experts respond to Ed Miliband’s proposal.
Grover, Sonja C. and Mycock, Andrew and Rufo, Yasmin and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Hamilton, Vivian and Fox, Ruth and Dunleavy, Patrick and Cowley, Philip
What about the voters?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
What is the extent of electoral fraud at English elections?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
What’s happening to our democracy?
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
Who governs Merseyside? The significance of Heseltine’s new report.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
The coalition’s resurrection of Labour’s stalled constitutional reform agenda will do little to address widening social, economic, and political inequalities.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
The political affiliations of the UK’s national newspapers have shifted, but there is again a heavy Tory predominance.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
The rejection of AV is the fifth occasion in the last 100 years that a proposal to replace FPTP has failed. This history of failure to secure electoral reform hinges on the ever-changing political calculus between Labour and the Liberal Democrats.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart
The unreformed House of Lords is already the largest parliamentary chamber of any democracy.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart and Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen
The widespread rejection of elected city mayors is a spanner in the works for the government’s localism agenda.
Wilks-Heeg, Stuart