A year after Monti’s appointment as Prime Minister, we draw some lessons from Italy on the strengths and limits of unelected government. What does it mean for the status of Italian democracy? And what will its contribution be, if any, …
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UK government commitment to sustainable development: taking stock in the Potemkin Village
on 12 May, 2011
The UK Coalition government’s approach to sustainable development looks increasingly like a Potemkin village. Its smart websites and fine rhetoric hide the misery of the social fallout from cutbacks in our age of austerity, slow progress on environment, and …
Sustainability and democracy
on 3 March, 2008
Sara Parkin
In this contribution to The Environment Foundation’s March 2008 event on Democracy and Sustainability, Forum for the Future founder Sara Parkin reflects on whether political parties get in the way of the collaborative democracy that is needed to …