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Democratic Audit on the “scandal” of the poor value taxpayers get for the £800m spent on elections in the UK

By Stephen Tall | Mon 17th March 2014 - 2:45 pm

Democratic Audit, an independent research organisation based at the London School of Economics, this week published a report, Engaging young voters with enhanced election information. The title may not be the most exciting ever, but the report itself is worth a read. (You can download it here.)

The executive summary from the report’s authors, Patrick Dunleavy and Richard Berry, sets out the current problem as they see it:

Current arrangements in the UK only give very poor, fragmented and old-fashioned feedback to voters about what effect their participation has had, and what election outcomes were.

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Posted in What do the academics say? | Also tagged democratic audit, elections, patrick dunleavy and turnout | 15 Comments

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