Tag: Matthew Lawrence
Tackling political inequality requires a “carrot and stick” approach
The UK’s political and democratic system are under severe strain, with declining turnout and increased apathy threatening the legitimacy of the current constitutional settlement. Mathew Lawrence and Glenn Gottfried argues that in order to do something about it, new deliberative and experimental institutional forms of democratic life must be combined with the introduction of first time compulsory voting. Similar […]
For the good of society, we need a democratic reformation of finance
The 2007-08 financial crisis showed the limitations of reliance on financial services in running an economy and building a society. Matthew Lawrence argues that we need to move away from a finance based way of doing things, through an ambitious process of ‘definancialisation’, which would see these institutions brought squarely under the purview of democratic […]
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