Changing Politics: Towards a New Democracy

Colin Hay (1) , Jon Alexander , Yasmin Alibhai-Brown , Julie Bailey (2) , William Barker , Vernon Bogdanor (3) , Kate Dommett , Bobby Duffy , Matthew Flinders (4) , Katie Ghose , Michael Gordon , Glenn Gottfried , Shelley Gregory-Jones , Steven Howell , Dan Jellinek , Will Jennings (5) , Rhion Jones , Matt Korris , Annette Kramer , Cristina Leston-Bandeira , Caroline Macfarland , Carl Miller , Brian Parry , Michael Sani , Jean Seaton , Paul Silk , Gerry Stoker (5) , Deborah Stoker , Paul Waller

1 CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS)
2 Department of Zoology
3 University of Oxford
4 The University of Sheffield [Sheffield, U.K.]
5 University of Southampton

In October 2014 the PSA joint-funded a Consultation event ‘Changing Politics – Towards a New Democracy’ with St. George’s House. The Chair of the PSA, Professor Matthew Flinders, chaired the event which brought together participants from a range of fields (including academics, think tankers and practitioners in several policy areas). Today, St. George’s House has published a report which highlights the main themes emerging from the discussion as well as some conclusions and recommendations. It identifies several areas where changes are urgently needed to reinvigorate democracy. The report concludes that to fully succeed in addressing the growth of political apathy and disengagement, parties and leaders must forget their differences and join citizens, academics, charities and others to address this problem with all available energy and resources.

Domains: Humanities and Social Sciences; Political science

Colin Hay, Jon Alexander, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Julie Bailey, William Barker, et al.. Changing Politics: Towards a New Democracy. [Research Report] St George's House; Political Studies Association. 2015, pp.22. ⟨hal-02290561⟩