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Press freedom is necessary to advance environmental protections across the globe
Journalists face increasing threats and obstacles to investigating environmental conditions internationally. In new research, Jeff Ollerton, Matt Walsh and Ted Sullivan find that press freedom goes...
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When select committees speak, do newspapers listen?
It is frequently claimed that the House of Commons’ select committees have grown in prominence since key reforms were implemented in 2010. Brian J. Gaines, Mark Goodwin, Stephen Holden Bates and Gisela...
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Have we all underestimated the severity of socioeconomic differences in...
Opinion polls routinely overestimate voter turnout, since participants misreport their own voting record, and because politically engaged voters are also more likely to respond to surveys. Using unique...
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Requiring voter ID in British elections suggests the government is adopting...
This week’s Queen’s Speech revived proposals to introduce photographic ID requirements for voting in British elections. The Democratic Audit team assess the available evidence on the likely consequence...
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Referendums can be more effective if voters can choose from several options
As the UK prepares for a second general election since the 2016 Brexit referendum, Charlotte C.L. Wagenaar demonstrates how a multi-option referendum could be a valuable tool in future to gauge more...
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NHS Citizen and what it tells us about designing democratic innovations as...
Rikki Dean, John Boswell and Graham Smith analyse an attempt to design a systems-oriented democratic innovation: the NHS Citizen initiative. They write that, while the initiative pioneered some...
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Informational privacy: a precondition for democratic participation?
To survive, democracies need to protect citizens’ data privacy, even against their inclinations to share information online, writes Wulf Loh. Picture by Mark Ramsay/CC-BY-2.0 licence The value of...
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Who wastes their vote?
In their recent study, Corinna Kroeber, Cal Le Gall and Sarah C. Dingler analyse the similarities and differences of voters who do not make their vote count by voting for a party or candidate unlikely...
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Why resilience to online disinformation varies between countries
There are widespread concerns about so-called ‘fake news’ and its impact on citizens and democracy. The current crisis caused by the corona pandemic demonstrates how quickly disinformation can spread....
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Faced with an ‘infodemic’ of fake news about Covid-19, most people are...
As fake news spreads about Covid-19, early evidence suggest that most people are responding sensibly, and double-checking the information they receive. However, given trust in journalism remains low,...
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