On 12th July, the Institute publishes The Politics of Consultation. Each week till then, Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell discuss issues raised in the book. The never-ending debate about the EU referendum of 2016 often morphs into an argument about the nature of consultation. On the one hand, there are people who see what occurred as a marvellous […]
‘Scope drift’ and the perils of Referendums Read More »
Hailed by Kofi Annan as ‘the most ambitious venture in environmental democracy undertaken under the auspices of the United Nations’, the Aarhus Convention (otherwise known as the UNECE Convention on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters), has proven to be much more than mere ambition. The Aarhus
The Aarhus Convention – a consultation tool for the digital age? Read More »
On 12th July, the Institute publishes The Politics of Consultation. Each week till then, Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell discuss issues raised in the book. Why should people who respond to consultations have any ‘rights’? In fact, are there not too many rights around anyway? Are we not over-fixated with giving people all kinds of largely unenforceable entitlements?
New ‘rights’ for consultees? Read More »
Elsewhere in this newsletter, we carry the story of a threatened legal challenge to the London Cycle Superhighway, as the Council in Westminster and the London Mayor, Sadiq Khan quarrel over the Swiss Cottage part of the Scheme. It has been a long-running dispute. Campaigners opposed to the cycleway have caused significant delays to the
‘Playing Politics’ after a consultation: tales from the streets of London Read More »
On 12th July, the Institute publishes The Politics of Consultation. Each week till then, Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell discuss issues raised in the book. In his excellent book on political language, Enough Said, Mark Thompson, ex-Director-General of the BBC discusses the trend towards shorter, less detailed coverage of public affairs. He blames America. He describes how the
Is consultation a defence against the ‘dumbing down’ of debate? Read More »
I have lost count of the number of occasions when my morning ritual has been interrupted by the need to pay particular attention to an item on the TODAY programme. None is more memorable than an interview with Michael Gove some weeks ago when the Windrush scandal threatened to engulf the Government and there was
Consultations on the TODAY programme Read More »
On 12th July, the Institute publishes The Politics of Consultation. Each week till then, Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell discuss issues raised in the book. What kind of issues most excite local people? Those issues that will bring them out to their town or village halls – if not actually on the streets? Now everywhere is different and
The truth about democratic accountability Read More »
When we wrote The Art of Consultation in 2008, we barely mentioned the law. Actually, there were some High Court cases but few received any publicity. Public engagement practitioners were vaguely aware that serious mistakes made in organising a public consultation could attract a solicitor’s letter, but few contemplated that they would face a Judge,
Have lawyers changed the politics of consultation? Read More »
Why consultation professionals should study the important analysis published by the Centre for Public Impact The last time we looked, we found that there about 150 active Think Tanks in the UK. Outsourced research and policy-making is alive and well, especially now that the civil service has retreated into being a BREXIT-dominated commissioner rather than
The need for a focus on public impact Read More »
Countdown to publication. On 12th July, the Institute publishes The Politics of Consultation. Each week till then, Rhion Jones and Elizabeth Gammell discuss issues raised in the book. Society is ambivalent about consultation. Many people view it as bureaucratic waste of time. A chance to give the impression of action whereas in fact there is none. A
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