Catherine Fieschi
Senior Associate
Catherine Fieschi is now a Senior Associate at Demos. She was Director from 2006 to 2008. She is interested in how citizens, institutions and organisations create new forms of social and political resilience in the face of change. Catherine holds a PhD in Comparative Political Science from McGill University, is a contributing editor to Prospect Magazine, co-editor of the British Journal of Politics and International Relations and the author of In the Shadow of Democracy (MUP 2004)
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Engaging engagement
Engagement is an art, and much like any art it requires practice and exercise. At Demos, we’ve been working with a new Canada-based organisation called Mass LBP. It claims to be reinventing public consultation and its premise is a simple one: that much as anyone should expect to perform jury duty at some point in their life, so everyone should expect at one point or another to be called upon to deliberate and feed into public consultation. The idea is that such consultation, such engagement should be near-routine, it should be embedded in the fabric of everyday life and the basis for everyday democracy.
continue reading on 19th May 2008 - Who's who? It’s a well kept secret, but apparently Britons know exactly what it means to be British. They don’t need to be taught, they don’t need to be told,they, in fact, don’t even need to think about it. Or so the Today programme’s take on Lord Golsmith’s Citizenship report would have led you to believe... continue reading on 11th March 2008 Comments (2)