There’s a very good article over at Westminster Wisdom about the longevity of the US two-party system – a dominance of only two largely unchanged political parties since 1860 – “a record unmatched by any other Democracy.” A comparison with the UK, in which the period from 1945 until the late 1960s marked a fairly [...]
Promoting innovation and a conversational local politics
Search
-
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? Picture Credits.
-
Seen elsewhere
- Anti-Reform Front Group Wears a Populist Mask (Center for Media and Democracy - Publishers of PR Watch)
- DavePress podcast 2 – Andrew Beeken (DavePress)
- Gaurdian Activate Summit 2010 (Involve News)
- Johann Hari: ‘The forces blocking British democracy are becoming visible in this election’ (News from Journalism.co.uk)
- Participation in post-election society: Who, how, and why? (Involve News)
- US local government uses Twitter to combat 15% budget drop ((title unknown))
- Local government IT enters its most challenging decade “ever” ((title unknown))
- Online Community Manager: Yes, it’s really a job (Fast Wonder: Online Community Management)
- What You and Your Nonprofit Should Know About Facebook Changes (Beth’s Blog)
- The hung parliament odds get tighter (politicalbetting.com)
Associated projects
Campaigns
Councillors
Creative thinking
Design
Geeks
Governance & policy
- 13th Floor from Governing.Com
- America Speaks
- Blogging portal – EU
- Centre for Local Economic Strategies
- Citizenscape
- Community Development Foundation
- Democratic Engagement – UK Ministry of Justice
- e-democracy.org
- eGovernments Foundation
- ePracticeEU
- Gov2010
- IDeA Policy & Performance
- Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- Institute for Local Government Studies (UK – University of Birmingham)
- Institute for Politics, Democracy and the Internet (US)
- International e-Participation Symposium
- Involve
- Local Government Engagement Online – research
- Local Government Information Unit blog
- Local Level
- Mark O’Neill
- Matthew Taylor’s blog
- Neighbourhood blog
- NESTA blog
- Participatory Politics Foundation
- Polis (Charlie Beckett)
- PoliTech Institute
- The Commonwealth – Democracy
Media
Political blogs
Politics & policy blogs
Practitioners
- Alice Casey – Cased
- All of us are smarter than any of us
- Andrew Chadwick
- Anne McCrossan – Visceral Business
- Bad Conscience
- Carl Haggerty
- Connected Republic
- Curious Catherine
- Dave Briggs
- Delib
- DigitalGovUk
- e-Gov 2.0 blog
- Emma Mulqueeny
- ePolitics
- Ewan McIntosh
- Fair Vote – blog
- FutureGov – Dominic Campbell
- Gallomanor
- Helpful Technology – Steph Gray
- Herd – Mark Earls
- How non-profits can use social media (Beth’s Blog)
- Intellitics
- Involve
- Kathryn Corrick
- Local Government Officer’s blog
- Local Level
- Mark O’Neill
- Media Squat (Douglas Rushkoff)
- Michele Ide-Smith
- Michelle Lyons
- Mission Creep – Neil Williams
- Municipalist
- MySociety
- Neighbourhood blog
- Oli Barrett
- Our man inside
- Perfect Path
- Peter Levine
- Ross Ferguson
- Simon Wakeman
- Social Media Research blog
- Social Reporter (David Wilcox)
- SoSaidTheOrganization
- The Democratic Society
- The Jadu blog
- Think Public
Reference
- Debategraph
- ePracticeEU
- Keep up with local government by-elections here
- Liberty Tree – Foundation for the democratic revolution
- Local democracy for young citizens (UK Dept for Children, Schools and Families)
- The Electoral Commission
- The Local Government Association
- University of Keele – British politics and government on the internet
- Voting simulation visualisations
Resources
- Be a Councillor (London)
- Data.gov.uk
- Debategraph
- Debatepedia: Political systems
- Democratic Engagement – UK Ministry of Justice
- DoWire
- eParticipation Scotland (requires login)
- ESRC elections factsheet
- European Citizens Consultations
- European Institute for Public Participation
- ICELE
- ICELE e-democracy guides (rescued)
- Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance
- OpenlyLocal
- Participatory Politics Foundation
- Political websites in the UK (BBC index)
- The Commonwealth – Democracy
- The Electoral Knowledge Network
- Tufts University Digital Democracy course wiki
- UCount4EU
- University of Keele – British politics and government on the internet
- Voter registration for UK citizens
Social media for good
Social media for good - projects
Web development consultancies
-
Recent Comments
- Public service media as an asset to democracy: Where next? | Local Democracy on We don’t want to read your website. We want to write it.
- Ed on Crowdsourcing policy? Politicians do this better than apps
- More ‘getting started’ guidance | Social Member on Facebook for Councillors
- Alix on Crowdsourcing policy? Politicians do this better than apps
- ‘is [Your Freedom] the silliest new govt website or the most inspired?’Delib Blog | Delib Blog on Crowdsourcing policy? Politicians do this better than apps
Social Networks
Twitter @picamp
- Mick saw this: Northern Ireland Data : Carisenda http://url4.eu/6YtBs
- Post Edited: A politically cross-cutting demand for innovation? http://bit.ly/cOsYrE
- We're looking for political innovation ideas now - it's all starting again! http://wp.me/pZ4si-1z
-
Recent Posts
-
Random Posts
-
Democracy on Flickr
More Photos Categories
- Constitutional issues (166)
- Centralisation (42)
- Consultations (34)
- Democratic renewal (43)
- Elections (19)
- Obstacles for democrats to overcome (28)
- Petitions (8)
- Public administration (54)
- Unelected agencies (8)
- Voting systems (8)
- Democratic thought (160)
- Book review (2)
- Community (7)
- Decision making (10)
- Deliberative democracy (49)
- Demonstrations (3)
- Digital inclusion (8)
- Direct democracy (30)
- Distributed moral wisdom (16)
- Leadership (10)
- Liberalism (2)
- Locality (7)
- Neutrality (6)
- Participatory budgeting (4)
- Popular biases (6)
- Populism (13)
- Pressure groups (15)
- Public Service Broadcasting (2)
- Sustainability (1)
- The Social Contract (3)
- Transparency (24)
- Universal rights (1)
- Local government (91)
- Conversational localities (42)
- Council services (10)
- Councillors (30)
- Mayors (8)
- Scrutiny (3)
- Media and communications (163)
- Design (15)
- Imagery (13)
- Poblish (6)
- The internet (10)
- The media (36)
- Web 2.0 and democracy (116)
- Politics (63)
- Conservatives (26)
- Greens (1)
- Labour (6)
- Lib-Dems (6)
- Political innovation (16)
- Political parties (18)
- The far right (2)
- Representation (74)
- Seen elsewhere (12)
- Uncategorized (22)
- Constitutional issues (166)
Local democracy’s buzz
Adversarial politics Blogging Bureaucracy Centralisation Civil service reform Climate change Conservatives Copenhagen Councillors Data standards Debategraph Decentralisation Eavesdroppable Education Election 2010 Elections Electoral reform Facebook Inclusion Interactivity Journalism Localism Local newspapers Machiavelli MPs MyDavidCameron Neutrality Obama Participation picamp Political parties Populism Reboot Britain Representative democracy Semantic web Slugger O'Toole Social capital Social data Social media Social Networking Transparency Twitter Visualisations Web 2.0 Wisdom of Crowds
© 2010 Local Democracy | Powered by WordPress