ON THE BLOG: Citizens' assemblies: what are they & how can policymakers use them?

In our latest briefing, Alan Renwick says citizens’ assemblies can support the work of policymakers, but must be well designed and taken seriously to succeed

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Citizens’ assemblies: what are they and how can policy-makers use them?

In our latest briefing, Alan Renwick explains that citizens' assemblies are representative groups of people that can support the work of policy-makers.

Read it 👇
constitution-unit.com/2024/03/25/cit…

Do you have a question about Citizens' Assemblies? Alan Renwick has answered the main 8 questions here: constitution-unit.com/2024/03/01/eig…

The latest edition of our regular constitutional review is now available!

Monitor 86 includes: Lindsay Hoyle in hot water, Lord Cameron's ennoblement, more recall petitions, the King's cancer diagnosis, devolution across the UK and more!

Catch up 👉 ucl.ac.uk/constitution-u….

What would have been some easy procedural solutions to this?

To understand that, we need to make a distinction between ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ conventions at PMQs, and look at how question allocation works.

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Monitor 86: Pre-election politics and the constitution

The latest edition of our regular constitutional review is now available!

This edition includes:
⚖️ The Rwanda plan
🗨️Lindsay Hoyle in hot water
✈️ David Cameron becomes Lord Cameron

Read it 👉 ucl.ac.uk/constitution-u….

NEW BLOG: Pre-election politics and the constitution.

In this post, which doubles as the lead article for the newly published issue of Monitor, Meg Russell & Alan Renwick outline how various parties' pre-election conduct is affecting the constitution.

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Lovely DID episode with James Graham, talking about his own life and about the need for a gentler, more listening kind of politics.

Do protests affect what politicians say?

Catch our very own Alan Renwick and Tom Fleming on the latest UCL Uncovering Politics UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy episode, discussing Tom's study on what impact UK climate protests between 2017 and 2019 had on what MPs spoke about.
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If interested in *trust*, well worth looking at work by

Alan Renwick, Tim Durrant, Harry Quilter-Pinner, & Bobby Duffy amongst others.

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Citizens' assemblies are in the news, but many misleading things have been said about them, on both sides of the debate. So here are quick answers to some key questions. 👇

And here is the recent Policy & Practice seminar we held on 'Could Citizens Assemblies Improve Policymaking' youtu.be/daGynoQQCgc
If you want to know more about how they could work, the strengths and potential pitfalls, give it a watch 😊

How can we fix our democracy? Citizens assemblies, constitutions, and public expectations with Alan Renwick.

As Labour looks at the possibility of citizens assemblies. We speak to a leading expert from UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy Prof Alan Renwick, on how they might work. ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/new…

Thank you UCL Political Science - School of Public Policy and Alan Renwick for inviting me on the podcast!

We look at #PMQs procedures across different democracies, and discuss whether the important questions about how countries are governed should be asked through insults and jokes… 🎙️

Constitution Unit

As ever, Alan Whysall and Conor J. Kelly are really worth listening to.

If your struggling to keep up with debates about the future of power-sharing in Northern Ireland, this is a great place to start.