AGM: Rod Dacombe and Hans Asenbaum elected PDD co-convenors

3 Apr 20184 Apr 2018

At the Annual General Meeting 2018 of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group in Cardiff Rod Dr Rod Dacombe and Hans Asenbaum were unanimously elected PDD co-convenors. Rod and…

Weekly democracy roundup, March 11

11 Mar 2016

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…

The PDD weekly wrap on all things democratic, Feb 19

19 Feb 201619 Feb 2016

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…

The PDD weekly wrap on all things democratic, Feb 12

12 Feb 2016

News/Blogs MP Richard Burgon has an interesting blog post on Democratic Audit bemoaning proposed changes to archiving Cabinet papers. What happened to open government? Read here: http://www.democraticaudit.com/?p=19509 On the topic…

The week in participation/deliberation, Feb 5

5 Feb 2016

This is our new 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…

Part-time job at the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development

12 Nov 2014

An opportunity for some part-time work at the Foundation for Democracy and Sustainable Development has come up, something that may be of particular interest to current or recent postgrad or…

New event: “Scotland deliberates” online panel

14 Aug 20144 Sep 2014

Scotland goes to the polls of the 18th of September to decide whether or not to become an independent nation. There has been lots of coverage of the merits of…

Panel ideas please! Call for papers for PSA2015 released

11 Aug 201412 Aug 2014

The call for papers for the Political Studies Association 2015 conference in Sheffield has just been released, so it's time for Group members to start thinking about panel ideas. As…

New team, new approach

28 Jul 201412 Aug 2014

Academic mugshots are rarely the acme of the photographer's art, and this bunch is no exception. But we're the new co-convenors of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group, and we…