Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg is a recognised specialist in local government and democracy in the UK. The Executive Director of Democratic Audit, he has been commissioned to research electoral fraud, the state of the electoral registers and the pressures on the system of electoral administration.
Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg analyses the failings, both historic and current, of the Fixed Term Parliaments bill and asks what this means for future reform.
Electoral reform is not just about electoral fairness – there are wider political and social implications; income inequality is now at its greatest since 1945.
Even without the Lib Dems' surge, hung parliaments are the shape of things to come. Dr Stuart Wilks-Heeg from the University of Liverpool explains why.
In the wake of the MPs’ expenses scandal, the public are being invited to vote on a range of options of how best to clean up Parliament.