John Curtice Articles

Progress is backing a ‘Yes’ vote in May’s referendum on the Alternative Vote. To show our support we are presenting a selection of recent articles on why the switch to AV will be good for British democracy; how the current first past the post system is broken, and likely to continue to keep on producing coalition governments; and how AV is not the same thing as proportional representation; and much more…

Over the Christmas holiday Progress is republishing some of what we think were the best articles from the magazine and website of 2010… Check out our selection now, and let us know which were your favourite.

First past the post is no longer able to deliver a two-party political system, whatever boundary changes the coalition succeeds in making. John Curtice explains why hung parliaments are set to become increasingly common