So the ‘Jamaica’ coalition discussions hit the skids in Germany and Angela Merkel may have to think again. The sheer difficulty of getting CDU, CSU,…
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
System renewal. Challenging established notions. Reimagining our societies.
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A symptom of decreasing community participation in public service planning and management is the increasing size of public service organisations. It has now reached a…
This blog is also posted on the CityMetric pages… Around England, new mayors of various political creeds are settling into their new roles, and figuring…
In the UK, what happens locally on the ground is not much to do with local political control at the time, either locally or nationally. …
For more than a century across the western world, political movements, governments and public policy focused exclusively on states and markets, and ignored civil society…
Those who believe in the decentralisation of public services do so because it is thought that better decisions will be made the closer service users…
Maybe a decade and a half ago, I was a member of a committee set up by the Lib Dems to report on the party’s…
This post first appeared as a column in Town & Country Planning magazine… When I bought my house a few years ago, on the edge…
There are few examples in Europe of political entities – states, regions, cities or parishes – which are governed from the bottom up. The small…
This post is taken from the newsletter of the Schumacher Center for New Economics. The rise of so many right-wing nationalist movements around the world—Brexit,…
This post is taken from my Padua address at the launch of Radix Italy (see full text). Everywhere in the world we are seeing a…
Things look different from bottom up. So when we think about the future, we have to do so fully conscious of the assumptions we make…