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Constitutions and Constitution-Making

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While much of the work of the Constitution Unit focuses on particular parts of the institutional structure of politics, some issues cut across those points and relate to constitutional structures - and the mechanisms through which those structures change - in the round.

Several of the Unit's earliest reports looked at constitutional reform across a broad canvas, as did two largescale exercises in constitutional forecasting: Constitutional Futures and Constitutional Futures RevisitedCurrent projects include research into about attitudes to democracy in the UK, through our Democracy in the UK after Brexit project, and a project seeking to inform public debate about Constitutional Principles and the Health of Democracy.

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Constitutional Principles and the Health of Democracy

This project seeks to inform debate about UK democracy and constitutional change, and to promote the importance of maintaining constitutional and democratic standards.  

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Democracy in the UK after Brexit

A project using surveys and a citizens’ assembly to examine public attitudes to democracy in the UK today.

 
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Democracy Matters

The Democracy Matters project ran two citizens' assemblies in autumn 2015, which considered local governance and Britain's constitutional future.

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Designing a Constitutional Convention

A report examining questions relating to the establishment and running of a constitutional convention.