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Scottish Parliamentary Research (SPICe)
Public participation in the Scottish Parliament: Understanding the core
Mar. 15 2024
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This report is the result of a SPICe academic fellowship in which Dr Ruth Lightbody, Glasgow Caledonian University, responds to one of the recommendations from the 2022 Citizens' Panel on Public Participation in the Scottish Parliament, that the organisation ‘Build a strong evidence base for deliberative democracy to determine its effectiveness and develop a

Found: democracy and a creating a framework for measuring impact, SB 24-13 52: Deliberative democracy background

Scottish Government Publication (Advice and guidance)
Public Service Reform Directorate

Mar. 13 2024

Source Page: Participation Handbook
Document: Participation Handbook (PDF)

Found: participation This is the engagement of individuals with the various structures and institutions of democracy

Lords Chamber
Foreign Affairs - Tue 05 Mar 2024
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office

Mentions:
1: Lord Howell of Guildford (Con - Life peer) Deliberative diplomacy has been pushed aside, killing the areas of compromise and the middle ground on - Speech Link
2: Lord Boateng (Lab - Life peer) We certainly do need to wake up to what is happening to democracy in the Sahel and throughout Africa, - Speech Link
3: Baroness Altmann (Con - Life peer) Ukraine is fighting on the front line for western European democracy, especially after the appalling - Speech Link
4: Lord Alderdice (LD - Life peer) I emphasise “Muslim” democracy, not Islamist. - Speech Link

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions
Document: Paper 2: Renewing democracy through independence (PDF)

Found: 02 Renewing Democracy through IndependenceBuilding a New Scotland Renewing Democracy through Independence2

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions
Document: Paper 7: An independent Scotland in the EU (PDF)

Found: EU’s founding principles and core values – based on human dignity, equality, rule of law, freedom, democracy

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions
Document: Paper 4: Creating a modern constitution for an independent Scotland (PDF)

Found: It must also embody key fundamental values, so that the way that Scotland’s democracy works makes those

Scottish Government Publication (Research and analysis)

Feb. 02 2024

Source Page: Building a New Scotland papers: downloadable versions
Document: Paper 1: Independence in the modern world (PDF)

Found: Worker-Owned Enterprises, Productivity and the International Labor Organization (Economic and Industrial Democracy

Parliamentary Research
WTO: Challenges and Opportunities - CBP-9942
Jan. 31 2024

Found: discussions ahead of MC13 Most of the work leading to MC13 focus ed on reforming the WTO , both its deliberative

Select Committee
Positive Money
 FE0047 - Financial Education

Written Evidence Jan. 30 2024

Inquiry: Financial Education
Inquiry Status: Closed
Committee: Education Committee (Department: Department for Education)

Found: best practice include: ○Economy ○Rethinking Economics ○Exploring Economics 1.2 Participatory democracy

Scottish Parliament Debate - Main Chamber
Committee Announcement (Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee) - Tue 30 Jan 2024

Mentions:
1: Mountain, Edward (Con - Highlands and Islands) The first is to make more use of tools of deliberative democracy such as people’s panels, as was recommended - Speech Link