Happy Holidays to the 14,240 readers who have downloaded our book “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” or any chapter during its first year of publication. Many thanks from all our authors - we are hugely grateful! It’s open access, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

By which benchmarks should we assess political leaders? How are Starmer, Badenoch and Farage performing, and why? Watch our expert book launch from this week! lnkd.in/eAjMwpja Academics and teachers - do consider adding it to your course syllabuses!

The @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social via @tobysjames.bsky.social kindly recorded this event. I gave Kemi Badenoch a grade D. But then I hadn't heard her supposedly brilliant Budget response. So should that have been a D+ or a C-?

Finally got round to a deep reading of @tobysjames.bsky.social and Charles Clarke’s interview with Boris Johnson (done in Feb 2025). It’s well worth it. This passage in particular stuck out. Don’t agree that doing something different would have saved BJ’s skin but a refreshingly honest admission.

The State of Political Leadership in Britain Join us for this tomorrow! Free and open to all, online and in person. events.teams.microsoft.com/event/3d662e...

Crisis of political leadership? What crisis? Join us on Tuesday forms.office.com/e/dnX1qZ4pVR

The Canadian Parliament is considering whether the system used for overseas voting is sufficient for Canadian democracy. I drew from UK-based studies to give evidence about whether proxy voting may help. And learnt a lot about the value of overseas constituencies... tobysjames.com/2025/11/21/o...

The State of Political Leadership in Britain Roundtable with Charles Clarke, Tim Bale, Emmanuelle Avril and Patrick Diamond Tuesday 25th November 1pm-2.30pm The registration link is: forms.office.com/e/dnX1qZ4pVR. We will send a join link 24 hours before the event

💡 How do different scholars do research on electoral integrity? How should they? 📖 In this new chapter for the Oxford Handbook of Electoral Integrity, I profile three rival approaches Recognition of different pathways would greatly benefit research and policy academic.oup.com/edited-volum...

Universal suffrage is often said to be a defining feature of democracy, but not the reality for many elections around the world. In this new piece, we map the arguments for enfranchising all residents and the number of unenfranchised adults in the UK. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

📣 Out now! Second editions of the British Labour Leaders and British Conservative Leaders books Edited alongside Charles Clarke, @timbale.bsky.social and Patrick Diamond for @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social

🔍What is the value of poll-worker voice in the delivery of elections? ✨⬇️New research on the blog from @tobysjames.bsky.social and Alistair Clark! Thank you both! policyandpoliticsblog.com/2025/09/24/t...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

New! Just out in Democratization @HollyAnnGarnett and I on electoral integrity resilience www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Open access and free to read...

💡 Introducing... The Oxford Handbook on Electoral Integrity Edited by Holly Ann Garnett and @tobysjames.bsky.social Chapters are now being published online ahead of the print version out next year.... 📖 electoralintegrityproject.com/oxford-handb...

Why automatic voter registration is good news for UK democracy…. theconversation.com/automatic-vo...

In case you’re interested, here’s the report by @tobysjames.bsky.social and myself on Automatic Voter Registration - something that the government has now said it’s working towards. www.jrrt.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Automatic voter registration is coming to the UK... www.gov.uk/government/p... Here's why this is great news for democracy... www.jrrt.org.uk/wp-content/u...

🌍 Upcoming Round Table! "Model Commitments for Advancing Genuine and Credible Elections" 📅 Thu, July 10 — 11:00 AM EDT / 15:00 UTC 🔗 Register to attend: electoralintegrityproject.com/ieip2025 #iEIP2025 #Elections #Democracy

Introducing... The World of Electoral Integrity! We have a new data visualisation tool to allow the quality of elections to be tracked around the world www.electoralintegrityproject.com/the-world-of...

The 2025 Global Electoral Integrity Report is now out! This year we focus in on those countries which saw rises and declines in electoral integrity. Read here: static1.squarespace.com/static/58533... Join the discussions at our free conference next week: electoralintegrityproject.com/ieip2025

📢New! What is the relationship between democracy, public administration and democratic backsliding? In this new article, I argue that the answer depends on the concept of democracy that is used... 📖Read free: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🌎Special issue page: tobysjames.com/democratic-b...

🎉Delighted to announce that @policy-studies.bsky.social is now listed for Political Science in the Clarivate Journal Citation Reports. Not only that, it is straight in as a Q1 journal. Thank you to all the authors, reviewers and editorial board who have contributed to making this possible!

📣 New in Policy and Politics Poll workers provide an essential role in a democracy - working on the 'coalface' to issue ballot papers and interact with the voter. What if we listened directly to their experience, when devising electoral policy? bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...

2024 may have been the 'year of elections' but was it the year for electoral integrity? There is a new Electoral Integrity Project-IDEA report out today, calling for urgent electoral integrity reforms worldwide to strengthen democracy: www.idea.int/publications... 🗳️Please spread the word!

Last week we launched a new report in Parliament on the UK electoral franchise. The report estimated that there are 4.4 million resident adults in the UK who are unenfranchised at Parliamentary elections – and 1.2 million at local elections. Find out more: tobysjames.com/2025/05/08/w...

The Australian election (in London) #overseasvoting

Making elections more transparent? Lessons from the implementation of digital imprints at the 2024 UK General Election www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I’m so angry & heart broken. My NSF CAREER grant was stolen today; dream project supporting science teachers/students as climate justice action researchers, tackling urban heat. Truly transformative, the culmination of my life’s work, we won’t stop, not in this climate crisis. Gonna fight like hell!

Just heard from the VP research that my grant with @dgrand.bsky.social, "Promoting Accurate Information on Social Media" was terminated as well

#Democracy - it would be a good idea

As many good governance initiatives are being rolled back around the world, organizational routines can be a source of resistance against policy dismantling In a new article in @policy-studies.bsky.social, @fnietomorales.bsky.social and I study the resilience of transparency policy in Mexico

Out now! Show me what you’ve got: a survey experiment of aid allocation dynamics under transparency and austerity mandates by Jaakko Hillo and Isak Vento www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Out now! Defining negative cases of policy transfer by Samuel Henderson www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Coming soon with @bitebackpublishing.bsky.social... British Labour Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis... British Conservative Leaders: www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/britis...

Low #VoterTurnout is increasingly a problem in #UK elections. Is it time the #UK followed the lead of countries like Finland and Norway who automatically register their citizens to vote? @tobysjames.bsky.social Paul Bernal and Ellen Berry for @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social‬ 🗳👇

💥New! Low voter turnout is increasingly a problem in UK elections. Automatic Voter Registration and Assisted Voter Registration could lead to millions more voting, argue @tobysjames.bsky.social, Paul Bernal and Ellen Berry. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

The UK government is expected to produce proposals for new electoral legislation soon.... In this new blog with @lsepoliticsblog.bsky.social , @paulbernal.bsky.social, Ellen Berry and I argue that this should include the legislation to enable direct enrolment.... blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

Just in case interest in the Tories hasn't completely died, the (updated) @politybooks.bsky.social pbk's due out in a couple of weeks. No need to buy it from @amazonuk.bsky.social, natch - it's just that I rarely see Politics books by academics in high street stores like @waterstones.bsky.social.

What a beautiful shot of the Broad 💙

Really pleased to see this quickly hit 5,000 reads... All thoughts and comments welcome - the book is coming along (slowly...)! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A great two days in a different classroom environment ⚽️

New blogpost on Eastminster ⚠️🚨⚠️ Our own PhD Researcher @arifekose.bsky.social analyses recent developments in Turkey 🇹🇷 including the imprisonment of Istanbul Mayor İmamoğlu and argues that Erdoğan aims at more than eliminating his strongest rival www.ueapolitics.org/2025/04/01/t...

And that’s a wrap! Thank you from the EIP team to the paper givers, discussants, audience members who contributed to the Electoral Reform conference this week. And to our partners Westminster Foundation for Democracy! 🔖 for more updates here: www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoral-re...

Watch the keynote panel from this week, from the conference on electoral reform! youtu.be/oDOcSWQAqqg See all of the papers and resources here: www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoral-re...

The Electoral Integrity Project-Westminster Foundation for Democracy Project conference on electoral reform has been taking place this week. Catch up, tune in and take part: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4bG... www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoral-re...

Here's a major conference on "Electoral Reform: DEMOCRATIC PRINCIPLES AND GLOBAL PRACTICE" organised by my @politicsuea.bsky.social colleague @tobysjames.bsky.social It's online so easy to get to: Online workshop, 19-21st March 2025 www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoral-re...

Principles for Democratic Electoral Reform Comments welcome! Join this conversations this week... www.electoralintegrityproject.com/electoral-re...

Today our @policy-studies.bsky.social's article got its first citation! 🙌 Using Australia as a case study, @philobmurray.bsky.social and I explore the challenges faced by #academic #advocates to bring change to #refugee #policy. Consider it as a reading for your courses! doi.org/10.1080/0144...

Out now! The French school in policy studies: toward suitable approaches for policy analysis within undemocratic contexts in the Middle East? www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....