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• The Everyday Democracy Index What are the most democratic countries in Europe? How would we find out? We could look at electoral turnouts. But while elections matter, Demos doesn’t believe that democracy is something that should start and finish at the ballot box.
  
   That’s why we’re developing the Everyday Democracy Index (EDI). EDI is a tool for assessing the democratic health of European countries across many different dimensions. That includes the formal dimensions of democracy, like procedural rights and election turnout. But it also includes more everyday features of democracy – how important democratic principles and practices are to the cultures of workplaces, to people’s community life, to the way they interact with public services, and even to the way they talk to their friends and family. Researchers: Kirsten Bound Paul Skidmore 18 BlogPosts 6 Bookmarks 8 Themes
• For Your Information Researchers: Peter Bradwell 81 BlogPosts 429 Bookmarks 85 Themes
• Demos Projects on the 2012 London Olympics The Olympics are a reflection of the world that creates them - a heady mixture of optimism, unfullfilled expectations and collective global dreams. For cities they represent an unprecedented opportunity to reinvent themselves in buildings, events and social innovations. Researchers: Charlie Tims Joost Beunderman 2 BlogPosts 18 Bookmarks 14 Themes
• Cool Tools for Government (past) We're looking at 'cool tools' that allow us to re-think public services. Who are the people seeing the gaps between individuals and institutions, and how are they filling them? How do we close feedback loops? Researchers: Molly Webb 10 BlogPosts 7 Bookmarks 21 Themes
• Making Good Work (past) This research explores what is meant by ‘quality’ in the field of children and young people’s cultural production. It investigates what ‘high quality’ or ‘quality’ means to those working within and with Creative Partnerships: namely within the education and cultural sectors. Researchers: Samuel Jones 2 BlogPosts 1 Bookmark 11 Themes
• Talk us into it (past) Conversation has long been the cornerstone of our society. New technologies enable us to speak to people anytime, anywhere. However, there is growing concern – both in the UK and elsewhere - that we are talking less than we used to. This work suggests that this is a misconception and that the issue is actually much more complex. Researchers: Samuel Jones 4 BlogPosts 9 Themes
• Future Planners (past) The planning system has been reborn – what roles will planners be playing, and what tools will they need, to maximise the democratic potential of the planning system? Researchers: Peter Bradwell 18 BlogPosts 81 Bookmarks 30 Themes
• The Collaborative State Collection (past) This collection will outline the lessons to be learned from inter-organisational collaboration in practice, through case studies looking at successful collaboration in action, and conceptual and systems analysis. 3 BlogPosts 6 Bookmarks 13 Themes
• The Nanodialogues (past) Nanotechnology - the science of small things - promises to be one of the defining technologies of the 21st Century. But what will it mean for society and the environment? And how can public engagement in deciding the direction of research be moved 'upstream'? Researchers: Jack Stilgoe James Wilsdon 48 BlogPosts 12 Bookmarks 18 Themes

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