News, interviews, and notes on the craft

What a good vote rationale actually looks like

Four structural traits make a rationale auditable - and none of them are about length, or about which way the vote went.

DRep Standards Institute Education Council · 7/30/2026

Why we will never publish a DRep score

A single number collapses judgment into a leaderboard. Here is what we do instead, and why it protects independence.

Priya Raman · 6/11/2026

Participation is not quality

Turnout data tells you who showed up, not who thought carefully. A descriptive look at epoch-level participation.

Hana Sato · 5/19/2026

Field notes from our first year of peer review

What twelve months of structured, non-binding feedback circles taught us about improving representative practice.

Ada Okonkwo · 4/2/2026

What changes in Standards v0.2

Three clarifications to disclosure timing, one new commitment on delegator response windows, and what stays untouched.

Tom Becker · 8/6/2026

Interview: Claire Dubois on guardrails that survive contact with politics

A comparative constitutional lawyer on why amendment procedure matters more than any single clause.

Hana Sato · 7/14/2026

Training release: the Data & Evidence track is open

One course, KPI Design, on measuring programme results honestly, with more of the track to follow.

Priya Raman · 6/28/2026

Member opinion: abstention is an underused tool

One member's argument that explained abstention deserves more respect than it currently gets. This is a personal view.

Personal view - not an Institute position.

Ada Okonkwo · 8/1/2026