Articles by Rachel Gibson

February 26, 2025

Mind the gap: how a lack of regular oversight is fuelling the crisis in Welsh local democracy

Rachel Gibson
Recent experience of Welsh local democracy reveals a troubling lack of oversight of Community Councils, the 'closest tier of government to the people'. Echoing calls for radical reform of the sector, Rachel Gibson identifies the fundamental paradox of power at the heart of the problem
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Rachel Gibson
Professor of Politics, University of Manchester

Rachel's research focuses on how digital technologies are changing the way political campaigns are conducted and the impact of this on parties, voters and democracy writ large.

She has published widely on this topic in books and peer-reviewed articles.

Her work is comparative, focusing primarily on developments in the US, Europe and Australia and she has just completed a five-year, five-nation study of Digital Campaigning and Electoral Democracy (DiCED) funded by the European Research Council

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