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Improving Democratic Discourse in UK General Election and Referendum Campaigns
Author(s) -
Crines Andrew S.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
the political quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.373
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1467-923X
pISSN - 0032-3179
DOI - 10.1111/1467-923x.12683
Subject(s) - referendum , democracy , constitution , politics , value (mathematics) , sociology , selection (genetic algorithm) , public administration , unit (ring theory) , political science , law , psychology , mathematics education , machine learning , artificial intelligence , computer science
This article is a short overview of the recently released report entitled Doing Democracy Better published by the Constitution Unit based at University College London. The report makes a series of interesting and useful observations about the health of democratic discourse within the UK and advances a selection of recommendations for its improvement. Whilst noting the value of the report as a piece of substantive research, there are a number of further questions which need to be addressed. As such, this report should be seen as the starting point of a broader discussion that takes a more nuanced approach to improving democratic discourse and a less London‐centric approach to conceptualising the UK 's political institutions and language.