Nick Mahony is the Political Education Officer of Chipping Barnet Labour Party, an independent researcher, a Compass Associate and the new Administrator of the Raymond Williams Foundation.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNo seat is unwinnable: how Labour activists set out to reclaim Tory strongholds and defy predictionsIn North London’s Chipping Barnet, pop-up alliances and an emerging ecology of democratic campaigning came together...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKRenovating democracy: combining conventions with festivals to assemble the publicDon't miss the new festival for democracy, DemFest, on 13-14 May.
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Published in: Participation NowIntroducing ‘Participation Now: meet the practitioners’
Participation Now is a new Open University web platform that hosts an accessible and expanding collection of over...
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Published in: Participation NowParticipation Now: patterns, possibilities, politicsAt one end of this spectrum we have started to place initiatives that offer to rationalise public engagement and...
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Published in: Participation NowVolatile, stable and extractive participationAt a conference on the theme of ‘Participatory Cultural Citizenship’ in Aarhus, Denmark last November, Participation...
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Published in: Participation NowWhen is citizen participation transformative?When is participation empowering and transformative? What is the relationship between ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’...