Treating Voters as an Afterthought? The Legacies of a Decade of Electoral Modernisation in the United Kingdom.

Over the past decade, the UK's New Labour government has been at the forefront of efforts internationally to modernise electoral procedures, promising to deliver ‘an e-enabled, multi-channel general election by 2006’. This paper considers the origins and the impacts of reforms to UK electoral proced...

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Publicado en:Political Quarterly Vol. 80; no. 1; pp. 101 - 111
Autor principal: WILKS-HEEG, STUART
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Jan-Mar2009
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