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Ben Rogers

Ben Rogers is director of democracy at the Institute of Public Policy Research (ippr). He is author of A.J. Ayer: A Life (Vintage, 2000) and Beef and Liberty (Vintage, 2004).

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Citizen assemblies: radical common sense

An innovative way of involving citizens in public, democratic deliberation is spreading, says Ben Rogers.

Courtroom shake-up

“If trial by jury didn’t exist, we would never have the audacity to invent it” – but a yawning gap exists between democratic ideal and democratic practice. Ben Rogers investigates innovations that promise to shake up Britain's judicial system.