Alexandra Runswick, deputy director, Unlock Democracy and Professor Robert Hazell, and colleagues from the University College London Constitution Unit.

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Before the general election, the Constitution Unit and the Electoral Reform Society set up an independent commission on conducting referendums.

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Paul McQuail, the co-author of a new report from London University's Constitution Unit, points out that there is great confusion about this.

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The Constitution Unit pointed out that the Scottish parliament might want to improve the accuracy of the register of voters to make proportional representation work better.

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"Peers are faced with working in overcrowded conditions, with limited access to computers and telephones, and little or no space for staff, " the Constitution Unit report said.

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Professor Bob Morris, honorary senior research fellow at University College London's Constitution Unit, says it could actually be easier to abolish hereditary peers in the Lords than make changes to male primogeniture.

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This is the 29th defeat inflicted on ministers by their lordships (according to this invaluable site run the the UCL Constitution Unit) and there seems a growing prospect of many more before the Parliamentary year is out.

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In a report published last year, the Constitution Unit, a group of academics and former civil servants, decided that the only way of dealing with this problem was to stipulate that the Scottish parliament can change its voting system only with the agreement of Westminster.

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In a report published last year, the Constitution Unit, a group of former civil servants and academics, also rightly pointed out that such an approach would be easier for the public to understand and less likely to cause disputes between the Edinburgh and Westminster parliaments.

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