Equal seats, unequal voters: The gap between numerical and political representation
Arguments about equal constituencies are also arguments about different ways of being represented
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Freedom of Information in Local Government
mySociety paper exploring the scale and administration of FOI requests to local government.
Retrospective on lettingfees.co.uk
Experiences of using crowdsourced data for research and activism.
When people decide whether to write to their MP, does the MP’s gender matter?
LSE British Politics and Policy blog post exploring if the gender of a representative affects how likely men and women are to write to them.
Did They Write Back? A Mandate Divide in Response to Constituent Casework in Devolved Bodies
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2019.
Measuring the politics of Eurovision with data
Sometimes it's all about the music.
How many colours would you need to make London's bus network more comprehensible?
Colourful network analysis.
Drawing Lines on Maps: Arguments about Political Boundaries
Essay on the conflicts at the heart of arguments over political boundaries.