A new public engagement project giving UK citizens time to to deliberate over economic policy priorities during and after the cost of living crisis
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Great news! Let's hope that economic policy is included in the list of 'contentious issues'. Economic policy underpins almost everything else, and our project showed that citizens' assemblies can build trust and generate unique insights
Labour today announce they will introduce citizens assemblies and juries to tackle the contentious issues the country faces. HUGELY encouraging! Proud that @involveUK is part of conversations on how to make this happen - across whole political spectrum. thetimes.co.uk/article/e923e…
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Engaging citizens on economic policy: what role can deliberative methods play? Last week, we heard from Nicholas Gruen, Christopher Holmes and Isabel Lee on how deliberative methods can and are being used to help develop economic policy. youtube.com/live/X-U5hE-yfqA…
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Join us tomorrow for the last Deliberate seminar of the year, where we will be discussing the topic of "Engaging citizens on economic policy: what role can deliberative methods play?
📅 12 December 09:00 – 10:00
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Engaging citizens on economic policy: what role can deliberative methods play? Tomorrow, 9am online! natcen.ac.uk/events/engaging… via @NatCen
CitizensEcon retweeted
Join us for what promises to be a superb discussion about participatory economics. We've come a long way but there's a lot more work to do....hear from these great folk on what that looks like!
EVENT: Engaging citizens on economic policy: what role can deliberative methods play?
Join our event with @NatCen, ft. @suzanne_khall, Ceri Davies, @NGruen1, Christopher Holmes, Isabel Lee & @Reema__Patel about deliberative methods & economic policy.
natcen.ac.uk/events/engaging…
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Our academic, Dr Chris Holmes, will be joining the panel for the upcoming @NatCen online event:
'Engaging Citizens on economic policy: what role can deliberative methods play?'
🗓️ 12 December
⏰ 09.00
More 👇
natcen.ac.uk/events/engaging…
CitizensEcon retweeted
Strong case made for using deliberative approaches in economic policy-making by Chris Holmes @Citizens_Econ.
🗣️ The Autumn Statement is imminent, but does the public have enough of a voice?
🚨 NEW: Drawing on the recently released results of the @Citizens_Econ public engagement project, Chris Holmes argues that there is potential to improve. 👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/public-voice-a…
CitizensEcon retweeted
🗣️ The Autumn Statement is imminent, but does the public have enough of a voice?
🚨 NEW: Drawing on the recently released results of the @Citizens_Econ public engagement project, Chris Holmes argues that there is potential to improve. 👇
ukandeu.ac.uk/public-voice-a…
💭Public opinion on the economy is based on limited information. But what happens if that changes & what does this mean for policy debates in the media? Thanks @NewEconomyBrief for this write-up!
💭Public opinion on the economy is based on limited information. But what happens if that changes & what does this mean for policy debates in the media?
This week's New Economy Brief explores @KingsCollegeLon's new study on public opinion & fiscal policy: neweconomybrief.net/the-dige…
CitizensEcon retweeted
Fantastic for @PolicyEngineUK to be a part of this innovative project by @KingsCollegeLon and @Ipsos.
We provided modelling to experts to draw up policy options and an interactive tool participants can use themselves to see how their choices impact people.
See their report here
CitizensEcon retweeted
Great report by King's colleague Chris Holmes. All my research on this topic suggest the public are *interested in* & *capable of* being involved in deliberative & participatory approaches. Hopefully many more projects to come (incl. applications I have put in recently!😊).
CitizensEcon retweeted
📑 Report of the UK Citizens' Economic Council on the Cost of Living Crisis now out ‼️It remains unusual to involve #minipublics in economic policy-making. This research shows the potential of public deliberation on spending, taxation & public investment👇🏽#delibwave #demopart
CitizensEcon retweeted
🆕 Can involving the public in economic policy-making help the UK tackle the cost-of-living crisis?
A new project sought to answer that question by offering citizens the chance to create their own policy recommendations addressing the challenges of soaring living costs 🧵
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Hello conference! We have two key reports hot off the press.
The first is a sneak peek of citizen priorities in tackling the #costofliving crisis @Citizens_Econ
The second is our toolkit for #inclusive policy making.
DMs open if you'd like a copy!
#LabourConference23 #Lab23
At @policyatkings event yesterday former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney suggested that citizens' assemblies could be important part of the process of forging consensus on difficult econ and environmental problems. We couldn't agree more!
voters don't think the main parties are prioritising the cost of living crisis sufficiently. some of these findings relate really well to the @Citizens_Econ recommendations, due to be published very soon 👀
🗳️The Bottom Line: How bold action on the cost of living is key to the next election
Our new report sets out what voters (especially swing voters) are hearing from the parties, how they are responding & the messages & policies that might sway their vote🧵
stopthesqueeze.uk/briefings
1/ Third insight from the Citizens’ Economic Council: Government should spend on things that benefit society
– There is a need to rethink the function of the economy and how we measure its performance. Instead of focusing on GDP, should we not focus on wellbeing and standard of
1/ Second insight: Fairness. One of the main insights gleaned from this process has been that despite everyone having different ideas of what’s fair, everyone wants fairness to be baked into economic planning. This means helping those in need while also rewarding hard work so as