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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

The whole is greater … … – than the sum of the parts …

It has long been asserted that a public consultation is fault-intolerant. By this we mean that one can be successful...

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Posted 12 years ago5 minute read

Purists and Pragmatists – Consultation can expose significant tensions among stakeholders

From time to time, democracies provide the spectacle of a tussle between ideologies – or at least, philosophies American politics,...

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Posted 13 years ago5 minute read

Consulting the powerful – Are the rules different?

It is quite easy sometimes to imagine that all public or stakeholder consultations are dialogues between the usual bureaucracies and...

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Posted 13 years ago5 minute read

Ten years on … – The Consultation Institute has much to do in the next ten years – but the agenda is changing!

  When the Institute began in 2003, there was quite a lot of public and stakeholder consultation. Some of it...

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Posted 13 years ago6 minute read

Had Mrs Nash been quicker? – Clarifying Councils’ consultation obligations; ‘Best Value’ still lives!

Considering the sheer number of judicial reviews sought on issues of consultation and engagement in recent years, it may surprise...

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Posted 13 years ago5 minute read

Self-selected samples – When consultation respondents might be unrepresentative

An experienced consultation officer in the NHS recently could scarcely conceal her delight. The consultation had resulted in a 1%...

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