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The most significant constitutional reform in the UK since 1997 is clearly the acceleration of devolution. Devolution is a tool to reduce the democratic deficit by creating a quasi-federalist governmental...

The Electoral College guarantees every state 3 votes which causes small states to be over-represented. In 2004, California had 34 million people with 55 votes and Wyoming had 500,000 people with 3 votes. ...

Turnout is the proportion of registered voters who cast a ballot at a given election, expressed as a percentage. Some political commentators have turned to the ‘turnout’ at certain elections when measurin...

Liberalism, an ideology born out of the Enlightenment and the subsequent thirst for knowledge, seeks to base decision on empirical fact, or ‘a-posteriori’ knowledge. All liberals believe that humans are r...

‘An 18^thcentury process (i.e. outdated and flawed) still used for the election of the 21^stcentury president’ is not a fair assessment of the Electoral College (EC). Under the EC, vot...