Thirty years on, public funding of Australian election campaigns has recorded a striking lack of success at stopping corruption. As should have been expected all along.
Category: Electoral law
Notes on a new Senate
With any luck, Australia's latest contingent of new senators will be the last to be elected with automatic ticket voting. The debate shows minor parties to be just as much captives to self-interest as anyone.
Another look at those Indian numbers
India's election result would have looked very different under a proportional system. But in politics, perception quickly becomes reality.
End of the Arab Spring, part II: Egypt
Egypt's presidential election looks like a foregone conclusion. It could all have been very different, and therefore so could the Arab Spring.
Election preview: Hungary
Hungarians seem set to re-elect their controversial centre-right government, helped by the new electoral system it introduced.
French local elections for beginners
The far-right National Front has done well in the first round of France's local elections. Here's what you need to know to understand the results.
Could Tasmania get a Green opposition?
The Greens aren't likely to emerge from tomorrow's Tasmanian election as the official opposition, but it would be a powerful lesson for the ALP if they did.
Update on Israeli electoral “reform”
Israel goes ahead with a modified version of its plan to make life harder for Arab parties.
Western Australians get to do it all again
An interesting train of reasoning by the court of disputed returns leads to the conclusion everyone expected: a fresh half-Senate election in Western Australia.
Prisoners and American democracy
The US attorney-general makes an eloquent call for the winding back of laws that deprive millions of Americans of their voting rights.
The World is Not Enough 