Items where Author is "Wilks-Heeg, Stuart"

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  • 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 picture_as_pdf
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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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
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  • Election petitions remain important to the integrity of UK elections, but reforms are urgently needed. Wilks-Heeg, Stuart picture_as_pdf
  • Party campaign financing needs reform. Hopkin, Jonathan and Wilks-Heeg, Stuart picture_as_pdf
  • Select committee report shows way forward on voter registration. Wilks-Heeg, Stuart picture_as_pdf
  • Voter ID at British polling stations – learning the right lessons from Northern Ireland. Wilks-Heeg, Stuart picture_as_pdf