Kirsten Bound
Demos Associate
Kirsten Bound was a senior researcher at Demos until 2008. Her work at Demos focused on democracy and emerging science and innovation in India and Brazil. She is author of India: the uneven innovator and Brazil: the natural knowledge economy and co-author with Paul Skidmore of the Everyday Democracy Index.
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- What Do Votes Mean? - Prizes! We all know political disengagement is a hard nut to crack. I mean what do you appeal to? People's intrinsic sense of civic duty? Their desire to take control of their own lives? All well and good, but we’ve been there and tried that. How about appealing to love for money and the quest for a celebrity lifestyle? In Arizona this year, the November ballot will for the first time be combined with a $1 million lottery to be won by one lucky voter, no matter who they vote for. from : kirstenbound 17th July 2006
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Launch of the Everyday Democracy Index
Yesterday evening Demos was jam-packed for the launch of the Everyday Democracy Index. Paul Skidmore unveiled the first exciting set of results, with an engaging response from Professor Timothy Garton Ash.
Rather than relying solely on traditional democratic indicators like electoral turnout, the EDI also measures how good countries are at empowering their citizens in everyday spheres of life like neighbourhoods and communities, workplaces, public services and even the family.
from : kirstenbound 1st February 2008 - EDI in Brussels We just got back from the launch of the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI) at The Centre in Brussels. It was a chance to test our ideas with a group drawn from Member States, NGOs, index experts and journalists. Margot Wallstrom, the Vice President of the European Commission, in charge of institutional relations and communication, was there to respond. from : kirstenbound 9th April 2008