Labour's clear win in the Manchester CA mayoral election restarts a 25 year history of the Supplementary Vote delivering huge legitimacy to mayors (of all parties) since its 1st use in 2000 for London Mayor. It's a key impact story for UK political science www.lse.ac.uk/Research/Ass...

Helen Margetts and I have a new (too long) draft paper about how bureaucracies operate 'information regimes', and how digital era governance3 can introduce radical 'digital decompression', allowing lossless information recording, storage & re-access. osf.io/gvez6/overview

“Doing Open Social Science: A Guide For Researchers”  by Tim Monteath and me explains open research for all social scientists (at every career stage), suggesting practical advice to make research more transparent, trustworthy and reusable. Free from @LSEPress at press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

“Doing Open Social Science: A Guide For Researchers”  comprehensively explains open research for all social scientists (at every career stage), suggesting practical advice to make research more transparent, trustworthy and reusable. Free from @LSEPress at press.lse.ac.uk/books/m/10.3...

Toynbee “Most MPs are clean, but Farage’s undeclared lucre from a convicted fraudster & crypto-gambler deepens the public’s perception of Westminster as the big stink. It’s Burnham’s moment to take stern action to cap all but modest political donations”. Yes blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

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Interviewing is key for much qualitative research. But how can it be adapted to make research more reproducible, well-founded, & cumulative? Ch.9 of “Doing Open Social Science” outlines a path to better practice. Free from press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/m/1... Or doi.org/10.31389/lse...

Jeremy Bentham argued that a “Public Opinion Tribunal” maintaining ceaseless vigilance over elites was essential for good governance. Only now has “digital citizen vigilance” made that real. New paper | doi.org/10.3389/fpos...

Theorists of republicanism described only a possible world. But “digital citizen vigilance” gives real time scrutiny political & administrative elites (albeit with costs). New OA paper with Helen Margetts “‘Digital citizen vigilance’ makes republican theory real” www.frontiersin.org/journals/pol...

Andy Burnham has endorsed the Supplementary Vote as his preference for reforming UK elections in our multi-party age after SV’s success in decades of English mayoral elections always created legitimate outcomes. This free chapter explains how it works from p.62. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

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Gita Gopinath writes “A painting of the end of meritocracy: A meeting of the two largest economies and not one woman at the table.”

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Answer - what modern malversation always delivers - contracts, reduced regulation, enhanced profits and economic ‘rents’, oligarchic power, media control, honours, patronage, power and loads of money

Which country is 5th largest in the world for GDP? 3rd largest for GDP per person?

Many thanks from all our authors to the 18,000+ readers who’ve downloaded “Australia’s Evolving Democracy” since it came out 18 months ago. As ever with @LSEPress it’s free to download it all, or any chapter, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

Does the Mandelson case show ‘presidentialization’ of PM’s role in parliamentary systems, well covered by O’Malley et al? www.cambridge.org/core/service... No. Instead the integral involvements of Foreign Office & vetting agency exemplify the core executive thesis. press.lse.ac.uk/chapters/e/1...

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Here is the Labour MP Peter Prinsley who did not declare an interest from receiving funding from Labour Friends of Israel in a Commons Select Committee hearing on Macabee football thugs ban from Aston Villa. He said it was “inadvertent” and got let off. Farce www.parliament.uk/globalassets...

US democracy as measured in a leading political science index has collapsed. American pluralism has utterly failed and there may be no coming back now.

Sara Heflin writes: Peer review was supposed to be science’s quality filter, but somewhere along the way it started acting more like a bouncer who only lets in the regulars. Papers loaded with data cruise through, while bold ideas that challenge the consensus are turned away at the door.

Many thanks from all our authors to the 16,400 readers who have downloaded a copy of our book "Australia's Evolving Democracy" since publication 15 months ago. It's free, one-click open access here, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3...

Shameful that Parliament makes no effort to rein in Farage or Cox to reasonable levels (= £40k on an MP’s salary). F & C clearly are full time on non-Parliament tasks. And utterly dixgraceful that a massive Labour majority & a supposed Labour government does no reform at all. (Diagram Harry Eccles)

I wrote on LSE blog in September "After recurring sleaze scandals, can Labour regain the public’s lost trust?" blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... Did Starmer, Darren Jones, Cabinet Office - do *anything* about malversation? No, of course, not.

Current debates again show how UK needs an Independent Anti-Corruption Commission, rather than discredited existing “safeguard” bodies blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp... The Intelligence and Security Committee is a bunch of elite “trustys” with intelligence service links, inexpert on corruption

It is a huge pleasure to report that the LSE now has an excellent research repository with great search facilities at the brand new LSE Research Online. At long last LSERO is suitable for a world-leading social science university. researchonline.lse.ac.uk Many congratulations to LSE Library staff.

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UKIP wants to register its party symbol as a Prussian cross plus a nicely lethal looking spear. I guess they did not feel their image was fascist and racist enough already - so they want to look like the Teutonic Knights? It’s not British in the slightest, is it?

Many thanks from our authors to the 14,000 readers who downloaded a copy of our book "Australia's Evolving Democracy" or a chapter during 2025. It's open access here, and always will be. press.lse.ac.uk/books/e/10.3... Australia holds so many positive lessons. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...