Welcome to ‘Revitalising Politics: Have we lost the plot?’, a two-day mini conference being held at Parliament on 5-6 November 2008.
Revitalising Politics is jointly organised by the Hansard Society and Professors Gerry Stoker (University of Southampton) and Colin Hay (University of Sheffield), two of the UK’s leading academics in the field of political studies. The conference theme is an examination of why, given that the UK is going through a period of constitutional innovation, we lack the revitalised politics to go along with it.
The conference will examine the Government’s proposals to address the current low levels of political participation, as outlined in the Ministry of Justice’s National Framework for Greater Citizen Engagement and the Ministry of Communities and Local Government’s White Paper Communities in Control. The conference explores whether these recommendations fully recognise the scale, depth and nature of the democratic political malaise we face and examine alternative proposals.
Speakers and delegates will be invited to the conference from across the main political parties, policy institutes, universities and the media to ensure that a broad cross-section of views is represented.
Sorry, but due to space limitations this is a closed event and attendance is by invitation only.
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