Tag: Jonathan Hopkin
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 […]
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