Tag: Graham Smith
Involve’s ‘Room for a View’ represents an important intervention in the debate on democracy’s future direction
Following the publication of ‘Room for a View’ by Simon Burall of Involve, the organisation asked significant voices from academia, research, and political science to respond to its arguments. Here, Graham Smith of the Centre for the Study of Democracy at the University of Westminster briefly reflects on its lessons. Similar PostsWidespread democratic change could […]
If England players must sing the national anthem at the football World Cup, it should not be ‘God Save the Queen’
With the football World Cup approaching, England manager Roy Hodgson is insisting that his players sing the national anthem before each game. We asked a number of democracy experts to share their views on Hodgson’s rule. In the first of a series of posts on this issue, we find a broad consensus that while singing the […]
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