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Distinguished Times
political journalist Peter Riddell has been elected as Chair of the prestigious
Hansard Society, the UK's leading non-partisan political research and education
charity.
Peter has been a member of the
Hansard Society council for 12 years and served on two groundbreaking Hansard
Society Commissions ...
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Hansard Society evidence to Modernisation Committee
Hansard
Society recommendations for restoring trust in parliamentary democracy
Summary of Hansard Society research on parliamentary
modernisation
The Hansard Society, the UK's
leading non-partisan political research and education charity, welcomes the
Modernisation Committee's ...
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On June 19th, four experts - Sir
George Young MP from the Conservative Party Democracy Task Force, Polly Toynbee
from The Guardian, Andrew Hawkins from CommunicateResearch and Professor Phil
Cowley from the University of Nottingham - debated whether this year would
prove to be a turning point for ...
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The Hansard
Society welcomes the publication of the Cabinet Office's Power of
Information report examining the benefits of online communities, the
information they generate and how government might become an active
contributor.
Ross Ferguson, Director of the
Hansard Society's eDemocracy programme, commented:
'The Government ...
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The Hansard Society, the UK's leading
non-partisan political research and education charity, is backing calls for the
Westminster Parliament to undertake a pilot of online petitioning methods.
Ross Ferguson, Director of
eDemocracy at the Hansard Society, commented:
‘After voting,
signing petitions is the most common ...
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Hansard
Society recommendations for restoring trust in parliamentary democracy
Summary of Hansard Society research on parliamentary
modernisation
The Hansard Society welcomes the
report of Ken Clarke's Democracy Taskforce as an important contribution to the
debate on constitutional and ...
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New research challenges myth
of passive Parliament
Despite the commonly held view
that Parliament is supine, the Hansard Society today sets out evidence to the
contrary. A new discussion paper, Law in the Making , examines the passage of policy from
genesis to the ...
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