Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky

Electoral Omission

by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Oct 23, 2014

Read Publication The administration of elections in the UK remains dangerously inefficient and seriously open to fraud according to a new study which accuses the body responsible for overseeing fair and democratic election in the UK as failing to focus on its basic...

Reforming Public Appointments

by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Dec 13, 2013

Read Publication There is a marked under-representation of people from working class communities in many public offices, including the Houses of Parliament and among local magistrates. Reforming Public Appointments says that equality policies set up under the last...

A Potential Political Revolution: Academic analysis of the Alternative Vote

by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | May 5, 2011

Read Publication This paper builds upon earlier work by Policy Exchange in The Alternative Vote – the system no-one wants which found that the Alternative Vote failed to deliver on many of the claims made for it. This new research note surveys existing work on the...

Bringing Rights Back Home: Making human rights compatible with parliamentary democracy in the UK

by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Feb 7, 2011

Read Publication By Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky. Foreword by The Rt Hon Lord Hoffmann, PC. Edited by Blair Gibbs. The United Kingdom needs a robust system of protecting fundamental human rights while at the same time ensuring that senior Supreme Court justices are...

Paying for the Party: Myths and realities in British political finance

by Dr Michael Pinto-Duschinsky | Apr 16, 2008

Read Publication Foreword by David Butler The case for urgent reform of Britain’s political finance laws, and for increased state funding of political parties, is generally based on the premise that the expenditures of British political parties have rocketed. The...