Upgrading Democracy: A new deal to repair the broken relationship between citizen and state

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This paper sets out the challenge of the escalating global democratic emergency and how this is threatening the political landscape in Britain. It makes the case to upgrade democracy by rebuilding the relationship between state and citizen, in order to win back trust and secure a better democratic future.

Over the course of the coming year Demos will work with partners and collaborators to design practical ways to upgrade democracy, revamp the state and strengthen social capacity to achieve this. We will build the evidence base to prove how more participatory and deliberative ways of working can make government more effective. And we will build the story to underpin this political project to upgrade democracy.