NHS Foundation Trusts have been a source of democraticexperimentation for the past decade

摘要

Campaigners are promoting a wide range of reforms for the UK’s democratic system, including changing theudelectoral system, lowering the voting age or allowing people to vote online. While many look overseas forudexamples of how these innovations work in practice, Richard Berry explains in this post that each has alreadyudbeen introduced at NHS Foundation Trust elections. Although public participation in these elections is lower thanudhoped when Foundation Trusts were established in 2004, he argues, the research community could learn a greatuddeal by studying how they conduct elections.