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Suzy Dean on democracy and participationDemocracy is not child’s play Suzy Dean on plans to extend the UK vote to 16-year-olds, spiked, 16 January 2008 Down with Coercive Participation Suzy Dean on spurious attempts to engage the public in politics, spiked, 10 January 2008
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hmmmmmmm What does the PR
hmmmmmmm
What does the PR discussion have in common with discussions on citizenship?
http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/10/31/pr-isnt-a-solution-to-public-disengagement/
http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/10/08/670/
Answers on a postcard please...
Duty to engage? I recently
Duty to engage?
I recently wrote the following on the Bill of Rights...
http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2008/02/21/bill-of-rights-will-be-used-to-prescribe-behaviour/
These new trends in citizen responsibility are really worrying, not simply because they're coercive but because having people view politics as a duty will mean they stop viewing politics as something they have control over.
Citizen responsibility is starting to pop up everywhere. A couple of months back I caught a Fabien discussion on the compulsory vote and there seemed to be a real appetite for it.
To read more on what was said please view:
http://www.culturewars.org.uk/2007-09/cvoting.htm