Category: Case study
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Which political party leaders do voters trust?
Today I’ve begun to look at the insights beginning to form from our ‘Who should I vote for?’ survey. With over 120 questions, the survey covers key policy areas based on the main UK political party manifestos. As well as helping people to decide on which party best matches their values we will be sending the aggregated…
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Good schools for everyone report
For the last month we’ve been inviting you to have your say on the future of schools in England so that your ideas can be included in the Department of Education’s policy proposals. We’re really pleased to say that your votes and ideas have have now been submitted to the department. 2,937 people 8,398 votes…
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Only 3 days left to have your say on the role of faith and grammar schools in education in England
The Government wants to know what you’d like from the education system. Represent.me has made it REALLY easy for you to tell them. I don’t know if you’ve ever taken part in a Government consultation before (most people haven’t) but they are pretty hard to engage with. Piece-by-piece it’s all very reasonable, but together it all adds…
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Will there be a European Spring? Or an Arab Summer? We’ll find out in 10 days.
How do the attitudes of young people in Tunisia, Egypt, libya, Algeria, Morocco compare to those of young people in the UK? And how do those differ from the older people in those countries? That was the question given to us a few days ago by the British Council and Bootstrap Company for a presentation at…
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Successful participatory democracy experiment is actually quite boring
A common first reaction to the idea of more participative democracy is that dangerous and radical things will happen – ie the “we’ll bring back hanging” cliché. So it is that I love this finding an experiment by our friends at Loomio reported on Civicist. At the end of the four weeks, after five discussions consisting…