Apologies for the light posting this week. I’ve been in Northern Ireland where I met someone who was studying criminology. Her key concern was the question of local control of policing and populism: Would devolved policing result in a deterioration into populism.
Northern Ireland is an interesting case in point, given the historic divides. Unionists, with some [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Devolution’
Populist policing and speedy decisions
Cognitive polyphasia and devolved politics
BBC Radio 4’s Analysis programme – and the podcast – are essential listening for anyone with even the slightest wonkish tendencies.
Just after posting on ‘cognitive polyphasia‘ a few days ago, I listened to this programme from their archive about the problems that devolution is creating for parties that were established as ‘national’ parties. One of [...]
A blog about representative democracy, social media and a conversational politics. How will peer-to-peer communications change local democracy? How is representation changing? 
