Add to ORKGTomorrow marks the beginning of a series of citizens’ assemblies, organised by the Electoral Reform Society in partnership with academics from Sheffield, Southampton and London, which will be taking place in Southampton and Sheffield over the next month. In this article, Chris Terry discusses the trend of grassroots deliberation which has been gaining momentum since the late 1980s. He argues deliberative democracy tools can help to improve and legitimise political decision-making in an age of detachment from traditional political elites
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The Citizens’ Assembly pilots on local democracy and devolution were the first of their kind in the ...
In the last few years, deliberative democracy has developed rapidly from a “theoretical statement ” ...
The UK’s political and democratic system are under severe strain, with declining turnout and increas...
Social regeneration is tightly interconnected with political regeneration and revitalisation of demo...
Democratic reform comes in waves, propelled by technological, economic, political and social develop...
Despite their surface similarity, deliberative democracy and direct democracy often pull in differen...
Involve, a think tank and charity which specialises in public participation, recently published a re...
Deliberative democracy is increasingly central in democratic theory and its concepts are employed in...
Since the first generation of deliberative democratic theory, and the ‘deliberative turn’ in the 199...
The British state is being dramatically restructured by the ongoing wave of devolution deals but the...
As global issues grow more complex, electoral democracies become more and more ineffective as mechan...
Oliver Escobar writes that despite the increasing emphasis on deliberative democracy, scholars are o...
Over the past twelve months the Democracy Matters research team, consisting of academics and campaig...
The article argues that deliberative democracy has now entered a third generation, to which the thre...
A growing body of research suggests the existence of a disconnection between citizens, politicians a...
The Citizens’ Assembly pilots on local democracy and devolution were the first of their kind in the ...
In the last few years, deliberative democracy has developed rapidly from a “theoretical statement ” ...
The UK’s political and democratic system are under severe strain, with declining turnout and increas...