William Davies is a sociology PhD student at Goldsmiths College and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr). His weblog is at www.potlatch.org.

Recent articles

A transforming political climate in Britain is shifting power in all directions. The momentous result for national politics may be that the home office becomes the principal department of government, says Will Davies.

A lesson of recent failures on British government policy is that the quality of a democracy is measured in the way decisions are reached as much as in their outcomes, says William Davies.

Will the era of digital networks and terrorism produce the worst of both worlds: a society of mass surveillance that increases insecurity? William Davies maps a new political-technological frontier.

Politics online does not itself guarantee more accountable, transparent government. But what can the internet achieve politically? William Davies asks how interactivity can be made democratic.