The UK's Changing Democracy: The 2018 Democratic Audit

Andrew Blick is Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History at King’s College London.Sonali Campion is a former editor of Democratic Audit and the UCL Constitution Unit blog. She now works at the Commonwealth Secretariat.Colin Copus is Emeritus Professor of Local Politics at De Montfort University and a visiting Professor at the University of Ghent.James Downe is Professor in Public Policy and Management in the Wales Centre for Public Policy at Cardiff University.Patrick Dunleavy is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the LSE and co-Director of Democratic Audit there. He is also Centenary Professor in the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra.Michael Gordon is Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Liverpool.Joelle Grogan is a Lecturer in Law at Middlesex University and the creator of @StickyTrickyLaw.Jac Larner is a Fulbright Research Fellow at the Center for Political Studies at the University of Michigan and a PhD candidate at the Wales Governance Centre at Cardiff University.Malcolm Harvey is a Teaching Fellow at the University of Aberdeen and an Associate Fellow of the Centre on Constitutional Change.Toby S James is Head of Politics and Senior Lecturer at the University of East Anglia. He is Lead Fellow on Electoral Modernisation for the All Party Parliamentary Group on Democratic Participation and co-convenor of the Electoral Management Network.Sean Kippin is a PhD candidate and Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of Scotland and a former editor of Democratic Audit.Ewan McGaughey is a Senior Lecturer in Private Law at King’s College London.James Mitchell holds the chair in Public Policy at Edinburgh University’s Academy of Government and is a member of the COSLA and Scottish Government Enabling Group on the reform of local governance.Colm O’Cinneide is Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at UCL.James Pattison is a postgraduate research student in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Nottingham.Artemis Photiadou is a Research Associate in the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Public Policy Group and a PhD candidate at LSE’s International History Department. She is also the Managing Editor of the LSE British Politics and Policy blog.James Pow is a postgraduate research student at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.Diana Stirbu is Senior Lecturer in Public Policy at London Metropolitan University.Ros Taylor is Research Manager at the London School of Economics and Political Science’s Truth, Trust and Technology Commission and co-editor of LSE Brexit. She is a former Guardian journalist and has also worked for the BBC.Tony Travers is Visiting Professor in the Department of Government at the LSE and Director of LSE London. He is the author of London’s Boroughs at 50.Tracey Warren is Professor of Sociology at the University of Nottingham.Alan Whysall is Honorary Senior Research Associate at the Constitution Unit of University College London. Until 2015 he was involved in the Northern Ireland peace process as a senior British civil servant in the Northern Ireland Office, with spells in the Cabinet Office in London.Ben Worthy is Lecturer in Politics at Birkbeck College London and writes on transparency and open data at opendatastudy.wordpress.com.

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsContributorsList of figures and tables1 Auditing the UK’s changing democracy1.1 The worsening context for liberal democracy1.2 Evaluating UK democracy and the Democratic Audit’s choice of methods1.3 The ambivalent legacies of the British tradition2 How democratic are the UK’s electoral systems2.1 The Westminster plurality rule electoral system2.2 The reformed electoral systems used in Britain’s devolved governments and England’s mayoral elections2.3 The UK’s proportional electoral system the single transferable vote STV2.4 Are elections conducted with integrity with sufficient turnout3 How democratic are the channels for political participation3.1 The political parties and party system3.2 The interest group process3.3 The media system3.4 Social media and citizen vigilance4 How democratic is the Westminster Parliament4.1 The House of Commons control of government and citizen representation4.2 The Commons two committee systems and scrutiny of government policy making4.3 Accountability of the security and intelligence services4.4 How undemocratic is the House of Lords5 How democratic and effective is UK national government5.1 The basic constitutional law5.2 The core executive and government5.3 The civil service and public services management systems5.4 How transparent and free from corruption is UK government5.5 In terms of Brexit5.6 The basic structure of the devolution settlements6 How democratic are the UK’s devolved government arrangements6.1 Scotland devolved government and national politics6.2 Scotland local government and politics6.3 Wales devolved government and national politics6.4 Wales local government and politics6.5 Northern Ireland devolved government and politics6.6 Northern Ireland local government and politics6.7 London devolved government and politics at metropolitan level6.8 London government and politics in the boroughs6.9 England local government and politics7 How far are equalities essential for liberal democracy secured7.1 Human rights and civil liberties7.2 Gender equality7.3 Equality and ethnic minorities7.4 The rights of workers7.5 Class disparities and social inequalities8 Assessing democratic quality and the potential for democratic advance8.1 Assessing democratic quality and renewing the potential for democratic advance8.2 Counteracting democratic decayReferencesIndex