Monday 15 March 2010 - 2
People Focus
Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist, gives the Demos Annual Lecture today at 18.30 GMT. In debate, he explores the arguments for a people-focused, rather than an institutionalist view of democracy and power in the contemporary political landscape.
Click on the video above to listen to the lecture and debate, and send your questions to the panel chair at questions@demos.co.uk or follow the debate on Twitter: @Demos on Twitter hashtag #DemosAmartyaSen
The age of 'we'
The Inquiry into the Future of Civil Society launches its report calling for a radical devolution of power and active voice from parliament to the family. In the first of a series of Making Good Society articles, Geoff Mulgan claims that three crises have launched a major civil society challenge
Is Russia’s judicial system reformable?
Medvedev’s efforts at judicial reform amount to far more than rhetoric. Ongoing research into the subject suggests that they strike at the heart of Russia’s informal system of government
Moving Parts: Prajapati
In this excerpt from Ruchir Joshi's 'Moving Parts' series, Ruchir visits the silica quartz processing-plant in Godhra where many local workers claim that hazardous working conditions are resulting in serious health problems
Creating a constituency for climate change
In the second 'Making Good Society' article, Tony Kendle argues that we have to relearn community action and how a society works together if we are to protect vulnerable people, not just from climate change but also from the solutions that society arrives at
Zero tolerance or zero consequence?
Laudable plans, committees and laws have been put in place to address violence against women, yet impunity remains rampant. Should the measure of progress be more mechanisms or less violence ?
Chaff, noise and fog in the climate debate
The UEA emails affair, together with the religiosity of some people’s approach on either side of the argument, has quite a lot to tell us about the way forward
