Hugh Pope
Author, Reporter, Editor
Category: International
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People feel hopeless at the state of our elected governments. But here’s news from the frontline of deliberative democracy activists who are finding another way to run our countries better.
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A farewell bow to my 43 years of reporting notebooks.
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What will Europe standing on its own two feet really mean?
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If better representation brings better government, then random selection has more potential to do the job.
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Belgian industrialist Luc Bertrand outlines the challenges undermining government in Belgium and Europe. In particular, he outlines the failure of electoral democracy. But Belgium is also a pioneer in new ways of making public decisions more efficiently.
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The cutting-edge podcasters shows beyond doubt that our system of election-based, representative government is broken. But – while flirting with good alternatives like deliberative democracy and citizens’ assemblies – they fall short in telling us what they think might fix the mess.
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How writing for decision-makers is the art of getting a message across to people who have little time to read – and who sometimes don’t even want to listen.
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How a new Kurdistan Mental Health Project aims to help Iraqi Kurds overcome the traumatic scars of decades of violent conflict.
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