{"id":1665,"date":"2007-11-03T10:26:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T10:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/03\/the-problems-of-democratic-reform\/"},"modified":"2008-02-02T13:08:39","modified_gmt":"2008-02-02T13:08:39","slug":"the-problems-of-democratic-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-problems-of-democratic-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"The problems of democratic reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes &#8211; that&#8217;s a nice easy thing to try and summarise, isn&#8217;t it? Nonetheless, I gave it pop &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/conclusion\">trying to wrap up the dLiberation blog<\/a> I&#8217;ve been writing\/editing for openDemocracy for the last few weeks. Warning: it&#8217;s a bit long, and probably rather confused in places&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Other recent pieces include: <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/european_opinion\">European opinion<\/a> (or the lack thereof), <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/better_the_devil_you_know\">Better the devil you know?<\/a> (on the impracticalities of constant referenda, and the compromises needed for democracy to function), <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/scientific_representation_and_democracy\">Scientific representation and democracy<\/a> (on how no representative system can ever be truly representative).<\/p>\n<p>And, on a different theme, these may be of interest: <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/no_one_cares_about_the_eu\">No one cares about the EU<\/a> (on the &#8220;referendum rally&#8221;), <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\/a_distinct_lack_of_interest\">A distinct lack of interest<\/a> (yet more about how no one cares about the EU).<\/p>\n<p>Or, of course, if you&#8217;ve missed me that much you could just go and <a href=\"http:\/\/opendemocracy.net\/blog\/dliberation\">check out the rest of the coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Posting is likely to be light here for another week thanks to insane workloads, but back soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah yes &#8211; that&#8217;s a nice easy thing to try and summarise, isn&#8217;t it? Nonetheless, I gave it pop &#8211; trying to wrap up the dLiberation blog I&#8217;ve been writing\/editing for openDemocracy for the last few weeks. Warning: it&#8217;s a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/2007\/11\/the-problems-of-democratic-reform\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,13,29],"tags":[177],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere","category-eu","category-nosemonkey-news","tag-eu-reform"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jcm.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}