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Revitalising politics through democratic innovation?

Revitalising politics through democratic innovation?
Revitalising politics through democratic innovation?
As one response to our current political malaise, the government has published proposals for democratic innovations that aim to increase and deepen citizen participation in the political process. But the rhetoric of engagement is not matched by imaginative and ambitious institutional design and there is a disjuncture between the reform agendas for the local and national levels. As currently laid out, proposals will have little or no effect on the political division of labour between government and citizens and on the causes of popular grievances.
0034-4893
259-264
Smith, Graham
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Smith, Graham
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Smith, Graham (2009) Revitalising politics through democratic innovation? [in special issue: Revitalising British Politics - Addressing Citizens' Concerns about the Conduct of Politicians] Representation, 45 (3), 259-264. (doi:10.1080/00344890903129475).

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As one response to our current political malaise, the government has published proposals for democratic innovations that aim to increase and deepen citizen participation in the political process. But the rhetoric of engagement is not matched by imaginative and ambitious institutional design and there is a disjuncture between the reform agendas for the local and national levels. As currently laid out, proposals will have little or no effect on the political division of labour between government and citizens and on the causes of popular grievances.

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Published date: 1 September 2009

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Local EPrints ID: 150159
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/150159
ISSN: 0034-4893
PURE UUID: 07f6c197-1eaf-4fba-af0f-fc50556e5b2d

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