Beneficial ownership blog series
What is Beneficial Ownership? How can the data be used?
mySociety
Explorer series
Looking at the different demographics of use of civic tech services.
Assessing success in Civic Tech: Measures of deprivation and WriteToThem
Different uses of civic tech sites have different demographic profiles, allowing multiple interpretations of their impact.
Digital tools for democratic participation
mySociety/Public Square report about the current usage of digital tools for democratic participation.
Super contributors and power laws
A small number of people are often responsible for most of the data - but is this good or bad?
Public FOI
mySociety report exploring WhatDoTheyKnow statistics for central government
Validating gendered reporting behaviour on FixMyStreet.com
mySociety paper replicating finding of gender differences in categories of reports to FixMyStreet.
Digital Tools for Citizens Assemblies
mySociety report exploring how digital tools can contribute to a Citizens Assembly.
Freedom of Information in Local Government
mySociety paper exploring the scale and administration of FOI requests to local government.
FixMyStreet: The geography of citizen reporting
University of Stirling, the University of Sheffield and mySociety collaboration looking into the spatial patterns of reporting on FixMyStreetthe
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.
Exploring the representation of women around the world
mySociety blog and minisite exploring the role of party in the gender balance in Parliaments around the world
Evidence from Scotland and Wales: representatives elected via party lists are less likely to reply to constituents
Democratic Audit blog post detailing how features of the electoral system affects responsiveness to constituents.
Did They Write Back? A Mandate Divide in Response to Constituent Casework in Devolved Bodies
Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 3, July 2019.
Dog Fouling and FixMyStreet
mySociety paper looking at current patterns of reporting of dog fouling to local authorities, and the history of this as a social problem.