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	<description>A two-day conference to be held at Parliament on November 5 &#38; 6 2008</description>
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		<title>Conference reports &#8211; Day 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the write-ups from the second day of the conference. The three panels were based around the academic papers available on the site. Chair: Andy Williamson, Hansard Society Panel 1 &#8211; Process New methods of engagement &#8211; Graham Smith, University of Southampton Challenges of multi-level governance &#8211; Tony Travers, London School of Economics Teaching [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=185&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Conference reports &#8211; Day 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 12:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are the informal write-ups of three of the sessions from Day 1 of the conference, they include: the plenary session discussing the conference position paper [download as pdf] Panel one: What can parliament and government do to revitalise politics? [download as pdf] Panel two: What can citizens do to revitalise politics? [download as pdf]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=180&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Gallery</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Refresh your memories of the conference with the Revitalising Politics picture gallery...........<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=153&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keynote speech by Rt Hon Hazel Blears MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:34:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download a copy of Hazel Blear&#8217;s keynote address here.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=148&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keynote address by Chris Huhne MP</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a transcript of Chris Huhne&#8217;s speech to the conference. Download full paper&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=145&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Revitalising politics: the eclipse of local government as the root of a problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tony Travers, London School of Economics and Political Science The British system of government is often described as ‘centralised’. Decisions about both national and local issues are made at the core of Whitehall. This arrangement has evolved over many years, thoughit has intensified in the period since 1945. Moreover, despite widespread agreement that such a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=140&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>British voters &#8216;turned off&#8217; by media hype and cynical blogs</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Nov 2008 07:59:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Corrosive cynicism, fuelled by politically nihilistic blogs and a retreat from dispassionate reporting, is endangering British political discourse, Hazel Blears, the communities secretary, will tell a Hansard Society conference today on growing political disengagement in Britain. She will lambast the growth of a hermetically-sealed professional political class and call for a support network on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=136&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interest Groups and the Revitalization of Democracy: Are We Expecting Too Much?</title>
		<link>http://revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/11/03/interest-groups-and-the-revitalization-of-democracy-are-we-expecting-too-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:34:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[William Maloney, Newcastle University The UK (and other advanced democracies) appear to be suffering from a democratic squeeze. Voter turnout, partisan consistency, partisan identification, party membership, and trust in politicians and government – all crucial to a healthy functioning democracy – are declining (see Mair, 2006). The contemporary democratic tenet is that ‘Unless citizens participate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=124&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Media and the Revitalisation of Politics</title>
		<link>http://revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/10/28/new-media-and-the-revitalisation-of-politics/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:29:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rachel Gibson, University of Manchester In this short response to the Hay, Stoker and Williamson paper I take up the question of how far the new media can offer a solution to the &#8216;anti-politics&#8217; culture they see as emerging in Britain in recent years. While I do not share the conviction that something is quite [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=115&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bridging the gap: Revitalising politics and the politics of public expectations</title>
		<link>http://revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/bridging-the-gap-revitalising-politics-and-the-politics-of-public-expectations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2008 22:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Flinders, University of Sheffield This paper matters because it provides a distinctive account of the origins of the contemporary condition of political disengagement. It achieves this by cultivating a relatively under-nourished field of study – the politics of public expectations – and locating this analysis within the parameters of existing debates concerning public apathy [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=revitalisingpolitics.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4713470&amp;post=108&amp;subd=revitalisingpolitics&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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