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document - 04 April 2007

ippr podcast 2 - Peter Hain MP on compulsory voting

ippr podcast #2 - compulsory voter turnout In the run up to the next Local Elections in England and the election of the Welsh Assembly and Scottish Parlia...
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publication - 01 May 2009

Public Policy Research volume 16 issue 1

Public Policy Research (PPR) is the quarterly journal of the Institute for Public Policy Research. It features policy-relevant and politically savvy essays about the major issues in th...
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press release - 05 May 2010

Results of ippr poll of PPCs

A new ippr survey shows that Labour and Liberal Democrat candidates in tomorrow’s General Election are closer to each other on most political issues than they are to the Conservative c...
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press release - 03 November 2009

Think Tanks unite in call for fundamental reform of politics in wake of expenses scandal

In the week when the Kelly committee publishes its proposals to overhaul the expenses system, seven leading think tanks make the case for systemic and radical reform to our political...
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press release - 19 June 2009

Truth Commission needed to investigate ‘War on Terror’ torture allegations

Allegations of the use of torture in the ‘war on terror’ must lead to investigations and prosecutions, according to an essay for the latest edition of Public Policy Research (ppr...
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article - 20 February 2007

Letter from Argentina

The use of the corpse as a political weapon has a long pedigree in Argentina. Nick Pearce examines this dark presence throughout Argentina's historical rise and fall....
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article - 29 November 2006

Citizen assemblies: radical common sense

An innovative way of involving citizens in public, democratic deliberation is spreading, says Ben Rogers. ...
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article - 04 July 2006

Pushing the electoral envelope

Another poor turnout in this year’s local elections shows that the case for compulsory turnout is impossible to ignore. Many people are aware that turnout has declined dramatically ...
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article - 05 June 2006

Voting as a civic duty

The revival of participation in Britain’s ailing democracy should include an obligation on citizens to vote, argues Ian Kearns ...
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article - 26 May 2006

Forcing the vote

Belief in voting as a duty has withered. The time has come for compulsory turnout...
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article - 28 April 2006

Compelling arguments

If next week’s local elections follow the voting patterns of the recent past, even fewer people will turn up to vote. Should some element of compulsion be introduced to reduce this dem...
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press release - 01 May 2006

Only compulsory turnout can restore principle of universal suffrage

Ahead of this week’s local elections, new research shows that as turnout continues to fall, ‘turnout inequality’ has also been on the rise. In a new report published today (Monday),...
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article - 01 March 2006

What can teenagers do for adult learning?

The funding squeeze on adult learning is due not so much to teenagers staying on in education as to earlier priorities set for early years, schools and higher education, says Simone D...
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project - 06 July 2005

Unequal Voter Participation

Discussion of voter turnout in the UK has tended to focus on the over-all decline in turnout (down from an average of 75% from 1983-1992 to around 60% in the last two elections), or...
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article - 14 May 2005

Turnout is really about class

Compulsory voting would give the less well off a stronger political voice. ...
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project - 28 February 2005

Touching the State

The Government is calling upon us to be active citizens. The citizenship curriculum is now part of the national curriculum – a compulsory subject in every state school. New Britons ...
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