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Integrity and Accountability in Politics: what does the public want? 23 March 2023

This seminar marked the launch of the project's third report, 'Public Preferences for Integrity and Accountability in Politics'. It explored public attitudes on some of the fundamental questions about how the UK’s democratic system functions.

Speakers:

  • Professor Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit
  • Professor Paula Surridge, Professor of Political Sociology, University of Bristol, and Deputy Director of UK in a Changing Europe
  • Professor Joe Tomlinson, Professor of Public Law, University of York
  • Dr Hannah White, Director of the Institute for Government

Chair: Professor Meg Russell, Director of the Constitution Unit.

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Report of the Citizens' Assembly on Democracy in the UK 28 April 2022

This seminar marked the launch of the project's second report, containing the conclusions of the citizens' assembly on democracy in the UK. In the seminar, the key conclusions were presented and discussed with leading experts and some of the Assembly’s members.

Speakers:

  • Professor Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit and Project Lead
  • Kaela Scott, Director of Innovation and Practice at Involve and Design and Facilitation Lead for the Citizens’ Assembly on Democracy in the UK 
  • Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor of European Union and Labour Law, University of Cambridge
  • Frances Foley, Deputy Director of Compass; Members from the Citizens’ Assembly

Chair: Professor Meg Russell, Director of the Constitution Unit

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What Kind of Democracy Do People Want? 10 February 2022

The Unit held this seminar to discuss the findings the project's first major survey of attitudes to democracy in the UK, originally fielded in July 2021. 

Speakers:

  • Professor Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit 
  • Paula Surridge, Deputy Director of UK in a Changing Europe
  • James Johnson, founder of J.L. Partners 

Chair: Professor Meg Russell, Director of the Constitution Unit

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Attitudes to Democracy in the UK Today, 25 February 2021

To mark the formal beginning of the Democrcay in the UK after Brexit project, the Unit hosted a launch seminar, exploring what we do and do not already know about attitudes to democracy in the UK, on 25 February 2021. 

Speakers:

  • Professor Jane Green, University of Oxford 
  • Deborah Mattinson, Co-founder of Britain Thinks 
  • Professor Claudia Landwehr, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

Chair: Dr Alan Renwick, Deputy Director of the Constitution Unit

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