I’m reliably informed that the plural of referendum is referendums and not referenda. Anyway, leaving that aside, have a look at Chris’s really-good post on the subject. A few years ago, I interviewed him on this subject elsewhere and it was a very enlightening experience.
Posts on ‘June 18th, 2009’
LocalGovCamp
LocalGovCamp is happening this Saturday in Birmingham. Tickets were sold-out some time ago now, and there are some great session ideas up on the Google Group for it.
I’m particularly keen on Tim Davies ‘overcoming the small hurdles’ session (something of a regular reference point here) and I’m going to see if there is any interest [...]
Political parties & active citizens
If there is a point at which most of the authors of this blog (I can’t speak for all of them) differ from most of the sites that we link to, and that link here, it may be on the queston of ‘active citizenship’.
Where it seeems to be an almost unexamined given to argue that [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
