3.4 Electoral reform with Dr Alan Renwick
Episode 4 of the Real Democracy Now! a podcast podcast, hosted by Nivek Thompson, titled "3.4 Electoral reform with Dr Alan Renwick" was published on October 26, 2017 and runs 27 minutes.
October 26, 2017 ·27m · Real Democracy Now! a podcast
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Episode Description
Welcome to episode four of season three of Real Democracy Now! a podcast. This episode is also the 43rd episode of the podcast and the first one since the first birthday of the podcast last week. To help celebrate the podcast's birthday I'd appreciate it if you could share either your favourite episode of the podcast or the podcast generally with someone you think would find it interesting.
Today's episode is about electoral reform with Dr Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit at UCL in London. Alan's expertise lies mainly in the areas of electoral systems, referendums, and other modes of engaging the public in decision-making processes, such as citizens' assemblies. His research is comparative: besides the UK, his recent projects have included all European democracies as well as New Zealand, Japan, and Canada. In addition to numerous journal articles, chapters and reports he is the author of two books about electoral reform: A Citizens' Guide to Electoral Reform and The Politics of Electoral Reform: Changing the Rules of Democracy.
Thanks for joining me today. In the next episode I'll be talking with Professor Pippa Norris about electoral integrity.
I am currently putting together interviews about electoral systems around the world and so far I've interviewed people about India, South and Southern Africa, Australia, Asia and the South Pacific and New Zealand.
I would also like to interview someone about electoral systems in Latin America but have not been successful in finding the right person to do this. If you know someone who you could fill this gap please introduce them to me via email at [email protected]
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