Tag: Economic Democracy
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Peterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished business
New evidence shows that it’s the Right that tend to benefit from the UK’s unequal electoral system. The Left is gradually embracing Proportional Representation, but it needs to move faster. This was originally posted as an article for OpenDemocracy: Peterloo led eventually to electoral democracy – but there’s one big bit of unfinished business Today marks…
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Peterloo 200: the path to Proportional Representation
16 August 2019 marks the 200th anniversary of the Peterloo Massacre. To commemorate the massacre, I have been working on a report for Make Votes Matter, co-authored with the Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform. From the Peterloo Massacre in 1819, through the Chartist and suffrage campaigns, to the rise of the Labour Party, working people have…
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The Impact of Electoral Systems on Economic Democracy in Developed Democracies
This essay was written for the quantitative methods component of my comparative politics module. A PDF of the essay is available here, R code is available here, and replication data is available here. With the challenges of climate change, globalisation and a backlash against established political and economic institutions, many political commentators have pointed to…
Owen Winter 