In a paper for the Democratic Audit of Australia, Olof Petersson (Research Director for the Democratic Audit of Sweden), writes that the fear of undue influence on voters is the reason why many democracies have discussed and quite a few have decided to regulate the publication of election polls. Yet such action raises several difficult...

In a paper prepared for the Democratic Audit of Australia Will Sanders concludes that, on grounds of electoral administration, participation and representation, ATSIC does deserves some support, as a reasonably democratic attempt to develop an elected national Indigenous representative structure. ATSIC elections do seem to be fairly 'full, free and fair'.

In a paper prepared for the PSP's Democratic Audit of Australia, Harry Evans, the Clerk of the Senate, comments on the Prime Minister's recent proposals to reform the Senate. He notes that the proposals aim at ensuring government legislation is passed and rejects claims that the government has a mandate to get its way. Attempts...

In a paper prepared for the Democratic Audit of Australia, George Winterton argues that the Hollingworth Affair has crystallised what had for some time been immanent, but perhaps not obvious: the public's sense of ownership and demand for accountability of this once obscure and remote, but now prominent, public office.

Professor Pat Seyd, member of the International Advisory Committee of the Democratic Audit of Australia, has released major new findings that show citizens are not as disengaged as has been assumed in much of the recent literature on western democracies.