Stuart Weir
Stuart Weir is an author, journalist, broadcaster and academic. A former editor of the New Statesman and a founder member of Charter88, he is currently Visiting Professor at the Department of Government, University of Essex, and Director of Democratic Audit at the university's Human Rights Centre. He is deeply involved in promoting self-help audits of democracy around the world and has advised parliaments, governments and democratic organisations in many countries, including Iraqi Kurdistan, Latvia, Macedonia, Malawi, Namibia, Nigeria and Zimbabwe. His previous books include Not in Our Name: Democracy and Foreign Policy in the UK, Democracy Under Blair, Political Power and Democratic Control in Britain and The Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the UK. Titles listing | Not In Our Name
A new, authoritative and important book, highlighting the danger of the executive being able to go to war without parliamentary approval
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| 216x135mm | ISBN: 1842751506 | 256pp | £12.99 | 16 Jan 2006 | Find out more |
 | Democracy Under Blair: A Democratic Audit of the United Kingdom
Includes: Second Edition 'This Audit examines all aspects of democracy in this country with remarkable clarity and vigour' Graham Allen MP, author of The Last Prime Minister and backbench advocate of constitutional reform
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| Paperback | ISBN: 1842751042 | 336pp | £12.99 | 02 Sep 2003 | Find out more |
 | Unequal Britain: Human Rights as a Route to Social Justice 'Stuart Weir is the first Englishman since Thomas Paine to understand the word "freedom".' Greg Palast, author of 'The Best Democracy Money Can Buy'
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| 216x135mm | ISBN: 1842750917 | 240pp | £10.99 | 21 Aug 2006 | Find out more |
| Voices of the People: Popular Attitudes to Democratic Renewal in Britain
Debating constitutional reform and democratic issues has for too long been caricatured as an occupational therapy for political anoraks and the chattering classes. But what do 'the people' really think about these matters?
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| 198x129mm | ISBN: 1842751344 | 176pp | £12.99 | 07 Mar 2005 | Find out more |
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