Re.: Direct Democracy GB-Debate: Fresh proposals and reactions to them
Your further responses are invited.
Colleagues who have commented (see on-line documents linked below) include:
Swiss political scientist Paul Ruppen, Editor of “Europa-Magazin”
Miroslav Kolar Ph.D. in Theoretical Solid State Physics,
Principal Scientist
Prof. Milan Valach Ph.D. Faculty of Education, Department of Civics, Masaryk
University Brno
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On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:15:54 +0100, Dr. M J Macpherson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Dr. Michael Macpherson
>Integral Studies ~ PSAMRA
>Guildford and Berlin
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>Subscribers to european-sociologist
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>I would appreciate your reactions to what follows here. Is related work
>going on in British universities? Michael Macpherson.
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>The year 2006 brought some encouraging steps towards improving direct
>democracy (DD), at present almost non-existent, in Britain. In growing
>detail, proposals to introduce some procedures of direct democracy, such
>as citizens' initiative, referendum and recall at all levels of
>government, have been put forward.
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>Then during early 2007, surprisingly for the Blair government, their
>"petition Downing Street" web site, especially the issue of road
>charges, emphasised further our prevailing inability, as voters and
>citizens, to influence public policy.
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>To aid and improve the debate we have collated four proposals to
>introduce elements of direct democracy in Britain. These were authored
>by Our-Say, Power Inquiry, Unlock Democracy (Charter88) and I&Rgb.
>Further, we have asked several experts from across the world to comment
>on the proposals.
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>We invite your comments, criticisms and questions.
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>The documents for this DDgb-Debate are available in WWW:
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>Collation of Proposals:
>dd4proposals.doc <http://www.iniref.org/dd4proposals.doc>
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>Comments:
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>canada.doc <http://www.iniref.org/canada.doc>
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>czech.doc <http://www.iniref.org/czech.doc>
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>swiss.doc <http://www.iniref.org/swiss.doc>
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>Regards,
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>Michael Macpherson
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