Evidence submission to PACAC
Professor Rachel Gibson has recently submitted evidence to the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee in response to a request for feedback about the powers that the Electoral Commission has and should have. She writes about the need to regulate...
Democracy@Risk Report now released
‘In the wake of the digital surge caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, citizens are spending a record proportion of their day on their digital devices, whilst the level of public dissatisfaction with democracy is at its highest since the mid-1990s. It seems that in this...
Workshop about Security, Trust, and the Crisis of Democracy
On the 10th and 11th of September, the virtual workshop 'Security, Truth and the Crisis of Democracy' will take place. This workshop has a great line-up of panels, including one where our Rachel Gibson will be speaking about Democracy@Risk!Please feel free to register...
Event: Launch of the Democracy@Risk Report
On the 20th of September, the Democracy@Risk project will launch a report summarising the key findings of a multidisciplinary literature review conducted by the Democracy@Risk Project at the University of Manchester in 2020. Drawing on existing research and...
Award for “When the Nerds Go Marching In” 🥳
Many congratulations to our own Rachel Gibson, who has received the Best Book Award by the Information Technology and Politics Section of APSA (the American Political Science Association). After careful review, the panel decided that Rachel's work, ‘When the Nerds Go...
Second Annual DiCED workshop
The second DiCED team workshop was held virtually on June 24, 2021. It brought together the University of...
📢 Event: Rachel Gibson speaking at Fake News Event
On June 16, from 1 until 2 pm, our own Rachel Gibson will be speaking at a lunchtime event hosted by The Guardian. This is the first in a series of lunchtime events organised collaboratively by the University of Manchester and The Guardian. Tickets can be bought to...
Project update 📢: Papers accepted for APSA and ECPR
DiCED will be presenting several papers at APSA (American Political Science Association, 2021 Annual Meeting and Exhibition) and ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research, General Conference 2021) this year. APSA [learn_more caption=" Demobilizing, Dividing...
📢 Event: Conference on Johnson’s Constitutional Reform Agenda
There is a free conference taking place on June 16 and 17, 2021, where DiCED project partners Rachel Gibson and Kate Dommett will give a talk about elections and referendums and the need to update campaign regulation for the digital era. The conference will be taking...
The 2020 US Presidential Campaign: Partisanship on Twitter
This US presidential...
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