Comments on: Maybe now is the time http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/06/04/maybe-now-is-the-time/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Kevin Harris http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/06/04/maybe-now-is-the-time/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Kevin Harris Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:27:14 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1083#comment-157 I bang on about conversational democracy from time to time from the point of view of local social relations, but I think I picked it up from a paper by Stephen Coleman that ippr published in 2005, called Direct representation: towards a conversational democracy. http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=320 still hugely valid stuff k I bang on about conversational democracy from time to time from the point of view of local social relations, but I think I picked it up from a paper by Stephen Coleman that ippr published in 2005, called Direct representation: towards a conversational
democracy.
http://www.ippr.org/publicationsandreports/publication.asp?id=320
still hugely valid stuff
k

]]> By: Ade http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/2009/06/04/maybe-now-is-the-time/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Ade Thu, 04 Jun 2009 15:09:45 +0000 http://blog.localdemocracy.org.uk/?p=1083#comment-156 I really like the idea of a conversational democracy as it takes us away from the old tradition of the winner takes all type of democracy that made it difficult for many groups outside the political class to access the political structures. This format will be easier for young people to engage with -we have found as we work with young people in political literacy, campaigning projects that their disengagement is with the structure rather than the content of issues within the political landscape and maybe a drive to a different way of 'doing politics' will engage them and other groups that have been seen as disengaged from politics? I really like the idea of a conversational democracy as it takes us away from the old tradition of the winner takes all type of democracy that made it difficult for many groups outside the political class to access the political structures.

This format will be easier for young people to engage with -we have found as we work with young people in political literacy, campaigning projects that their disengagement is with the structure rather than the content of issues within the political landscape and maybe a drive to a different way of ‘doing politics’ will engage them and other groups that have been seen as disengaged from politics?

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