Paul Evans is a writer on democracy, political economy and collective action. He is the author of Save Democracy – Abolish Voting (Democratic Society, 2017), and was involved in establishing Political Innovation and the think-tank transparency project Who Funds You?
He works professionally in the British media and entertainment industries through a professional association for film and TV directors (though his writing reflects his own views and not necessarily those of his employer).
His writing focuses particularly on collective-action problems, political representation, media institutions and the incentives that shape public life.
He is currently co-authoring The Fix with the economist Chris Dillow.
This website is a personal homepage.
“Save Democracy – Abolish Voting”, was published by The Democratic Society in November 2017.
Details of the book can be seen here. Some extracts have been published on this site here.
It is an extension of some informal work on the Political Innovation project (est: 2009) with the help of a few friends.
This project provided a base to work on the think-tank funding watchdog Who Funds You site with a few like-minded friends.
Norman Geras’ blog featured a profile of me here a while ago (link now visible via The Wayback Machine).
Some years ago, Paul worked with Mick Fealty of Slugger O’Toole [posts can be seen here].
Hinterland
Also a folk musician (guitar, vocals, whistle) and occasional guitarist or whistle player for The Pogue Traders – a Pogues tribute band performing all over the UK.
