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Pedestrians

Opinion: Uncertain, nostalgic, uncomfortable and bewildered: a portrait of the older Brexit backer

02 Jun 2016

Geoffrey Edwards (Department of Politics and International Studies) discusses what motivates some people to support Brexit.

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Students at Fitzwilliam College

Opinion: Dear young people: here’s why you need to vote in the EU referendum

20 May 2016

Catherine Barnard (Faculty of Law) discusses why it's so important that young people vote in the EU referendum.

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Queuing to vote in India

A democratic cacophony

23 Oct 2015

India is home to one of the most vibrant, engaged and mystifying democracies on the planet. Cambridge academics, across a wide range of disciplines...

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If poor people don't vote, will their children be poor as well

08 Sep 2015

Christopher Rauh, postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Cambridge, looks at how differences in voter turnout between countries can...

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Online voting

Anyone for digital democracy?

02 Mar 2015

Dr Finbarr Livesey – University lecturer and Deputy Director of the MPhil in Public Policy – submitted research to Parliament’s recent report on...

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Professor David Feldman

'Votes for Prisoners? Democracy and the European Convention on Human Rights'

29 Nov 2012

Decisions of the European Court of Human Rights holding that the UK's blanket ban on voting by convicted prisoners violates Article 3 of Protocol 1...

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