‘Tomorrows Communities: Lessons for Community Based Transformation in the Age of Global Crises’.
Deeper Democracy members Henry Tam, Gabriel Chanan, Diane Warburton and Colin Miller, are delighted to be involved in contributing to this important and wide ranging new book.
Many argue that the only chance of there being a Labour led government after the next elections is via a ‘progressive alliance’. An agreement between Labour, Liberal democrats and the ‘progressive nationalist’ SNP and Plaid Cymru. Is this democratically desirable? If it is would be be possible to create one and what form would it take?
Our democratic system is in crisis. Many people blame Brexit, but the problems have been long in the making. Too many people and communities feel
What does ‘will of the people’ actually mean? Here are some numbers about the EU referendum and why, on their own, plebiscites are not a good way of involving citizens in important decision.
In late April the European Movement organised a festival of democracy (Democracy Alive) on the central square of Dan Burg on the island of Texel
Bob Rhodes and Ralph Broad argue that social work and social care should return to the thinking set out in the Barclay report and renew their commitment to community.
https://www.centreforwelfarereform.org/library/by-az/revisiting-barclay.html
Democracy is under threat, our current laissez faire approach is leading to social fragmentation and polarisation. A communities’ capacity for democratic decision-making is inescapably linked to the extent to which their members can learn, reflect on, and exchange ideas in an objective manner. ‘Communities should have more quality-assured deliberative events that will empower them to select public policies and representatives’
Community Development Practitioner Matt Scott argues that:
1. democracy needs closer definition
2. to meet the challenges presented by technology we need to move from our existing. Victorian based systems
3. democracy is about community development, where local ties and collective action need to come to the fore in order for democracy to haver all meaning in peoples lives