Wilks-Heeg, Stuart, Blick, Andrew and Crone, Stephen (2013) Rules on election deposits create an uneven playing field and protect the interests of the largest parties. Democratic Audit UK (14 Oct 2013). Website.
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Abstract
Evidence suggests a multi-party system is slowly emerging in UK politics, but our electoral rules may be impeding its development. In the 2012 audit of UK democracy, Stuart Wilks-Heeg, Andrew Blick, and Stephen Crone considered the requirements for candidates to pay a deposit in order to stand for election, and showed how these had a disproportionate impact on small parties.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://www.democraticaudit.com |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Jun 2017 12:03 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2025 08:09 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/81379 |
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