Tag: John Dryzek
Gender equality in Parliament: how random selection could get us there
Would choosing the second chamber by sortition be an effective way to achieve a 50:50 balance between men and women? John Dryzek argues that the upper chamber – in Australia as in the UK, a deliberative forum – would be a good place to start, and looks at ways to ensure women sitting in deliberative […]
Reforming Australia’s Senate means ensuring Indigenous people are represented
Before the 2016 federal election in July, Australia’s coalition government demonstrated a rare degree of collaboration with the Greens and passed changes to reform the electoral process for the Senate. Richard Reid explains the reform and its intentions – and its complete failure in the wake of Australia’s double dissolution election. He argues the debate about Senate reform should go […]
Deliberation’s domain extends well beyond Parliament
Involve, a think tank and charity which specialises in public participation, recently published a report by Simon Burall on democracy as a deliberative system, inspired by the work of the political scientist John Dryzek who responds to Burall’s work here. Similar PostsInvolve’s ‘Room for a View’ represents an important intervention in the debate on democracy’s future […]
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