Tag: Adam Lent
Britain is facing a crisis of democracy but the main parties cannot respond
Who is at fault for Britain’s democratic crisis? While political parties seek to be the solution to this malaise, they are in actual fact the major driver of the problem, argues Adam Lent. Unfortunately, politicians are disincentived to adopt the kind of relationship with voters that would address their dissatisfaction, meaning that the problem is a […]
NHS Citizen is seeking to deliver engagement processes that meet the needs of policy-makers as well as ensuring the public’s views are heard
Designing public engagement processes and institutions from the perspective of citizens alone makes them easy for policy makers to ignore, argues Simon Burall. He suggests we need to pay more attention to the needs of those making policy in order to design public engagement processes which make a difference, and outlines the development of the […]
Beppe Grillo’s ‘Five Star’ movement shows the probable limitations of the internet as a replacement for politics
In a recent post, the RSA’s Adam Lent argued that politics could learn from the internet in order to stem the tide of political apathy and disengagement. But can (and perhaps more importantly, should) politics actually be more like the internet? Democratic Audit’s co-Director Jonathan Hopkin argues that events in Italy show that it is much […]
How do we end political alienation? Get rid of parties, papers and point-scorers
Is British democracy beyond salvation? Adam Lent argues that political alienation is an inevitable result of the defects of our political system, but that there is potential for improvement and reform in making politics more like the internet, reforming political parties, and changing the ‘point scoring’ nature of political discourse. Unfortunately, none of these look […]
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