Last week we republished a piece highlighting the deliberative, participatory elements of the Irish marriage equality referendum from John Parkinson. This week, PDD member Clodagh Harris fills in the detail of the story of the Convention on the Constitution. Last week-end Ireland became a world leader, twice! Firstly, and most significantly, it became the first country …
Anxieties about the susceptibility of ordinary people to appeals to emotion and misinformation have been central to critiques of democracy from Plato to Walter Lippmann to the present day. And democratic theorists have long harboured anxieties about the dangers of behaviourist and instrumental approaches to politics, in which professional techniques of opinion management and the incentive structures of commercial media would narrow … Continue reading
Here’s our weekly update on the world of deliberative and participatory democracy. As ever, please write in to psademocracy@gmail.com if you have any additions. News/Blogs Democratic Audit keeps up the conversation on FoI and open government: http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=20481 John Keane with a great post on the dramatic role of elections in democracy: http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=20269 Events Very … Continue reading
Here’s our weekly round-up of news, events, publications and so on that have emerged on themes surrounding participatory and deliberative democracy. In the news… A couple from the reliably interesting Democratic Audit: On the FOI debate in Britain again: http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=20284 On the democratic work of Bill Committees: http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=20285 On the democratic accountability of security services: … Continue reading
News/blogs Read ERS’s Katie Ghose interesting insight on what other referenda can tell us about the upcoming Brexit vote: http://demaudituk.wpengine.com/?p=20034 Also a couple of interesting items in The Conversation this week. One is John Dryzek bemoaning proposed voting changes in the Australian Senate: https://theconversation.com/the-proposed-senate-voting-change-will-hurt-australian-democracy-55297 The other is Christopher Murphy (Salford) on the FOI process and … Continue reading
Here’s our weekly round-up of news, events, publications and so on that have emerged on themes surrounding participatory and deliberative democracy. If anything is missing, or you would like to draw attention to something in particular in the weeks ahead, please email psademocracy@gmail.com. Please feel free to repost, tweet, etc. News/Blogs The team at Democratic … Continue reading
Back again for another instalment. Remember to reblog, retweet etc and to get in touch to alert us to anything important for future round-ups. News/Blogs Important note on the open democracy blog about the ill-informed nature of the Brexit debate and the need for improved media coverage: https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourbeeb/mike-berry/british-are-dangerously-ill-informed-about-eu-referendum#.VsWK4O9du2Q.twitter An interesting piece on Democratic Audit on … Continue reading
The schedule for the PSA conference in Brighton is now up, and paper givers all confirmed. The PDD group has 4 specialist panels, as is our maximum allowable with current membership. Special thanks to Graham Smith and Marit Böker who have been instrumental in getting together such interesting people to talk about such interesting … Continue reading
