It can hardly be a coincidence: a key government adviser proposing a massive rise in university fees just as the sector is reeling from the news of enormous imminent cuts.
A key institution of modern justice must learn how to speak to the world it inhabits, says James A Goldston.
The Copenhagen climate-change summit has been widely portrayed as a failure. But in a deeper and longer perspective COP15 is an important milestone, says Joe Smith.
A counter-terrorist policy that allows the revocation of citizenship and indefinite detention must be re-examined, says Wanda Troszczynska-van Genderen.
Fishkin, James, When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation, Oxford University Press, 2009.
James Fishkin, who is masterminding POWER 2010’s deliberative assembly in London this weekend (see
President Obama unveils new reforms of the US security bureaucracy in the wake of a White House report criticising intelligence failures linked to the attempted Christmas Day bombing. A leading Iranian opposition politician is attacked by supporters of the regime. In the Philippines, fighting erup
The clinic was surrounded by trees and high weeds. One room was locked; researchers later discovered that a group of students was lodging there while away from home. Judging by
Corruption has always been part of Russian life, and the Oryol region today just offers a rather extreme example, says Elena Godlevskaya. Some of the main perpetrators have been named, but the punishment being meted out to them is a joke.
The forum opened with a sweet grass ceremony. An elder led a prayer on behalf of First Nations, Inuit, Metis and Urban Aboriginal Peoples. A small plume of smoke wafted
In a city in the UK with a troubled political history, residents in one neighbourhood discovered that the Health Authority was planning to close their health centre, so they mobilised
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has become South Africa’s most influential AIDS advocacy group within a decade of its founding in 1998. The TAC has mobilised protesters, confronted policy
In Brazil, it is common to find citizens jammed together into municipal halls on neat, narrow rows of white plastic chairs, each a personal podium for the citizens cum policy-
