Sarah Castell
@scastell.bsky.social
CEO Involve. Working to build a stronger democracy that works for everyone, by using the supertools of participatory and deliberative democracy. Also like improv & jumping in cold water.
📰 👉 Personal news - I'm stepping down from my role as Involve CEO. Family issues mean I need to take a break - so am leaving quite quickly, end this week. Yikes!
June 10, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📰 👉 Personal news - I'm stepping down from my role as Involve CEO. Family issues mean I need to take a break - so am leaving quite quickly, end this week. Yikes!
Reposted by Sarah Castell
Central to the #democratic value of #minipublics is public engagement. Yet, how to generate this engagement in practice remains underexplored.
🔔ICYMI: The latest from @scastell.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub
www.publicdeliberation.net/mini-publics...
🔔ICYMI: The latest from @scastell.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub
www.publicdeliberation.net/mini-publics...
January 30, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Central to the #democratic value of #minipublics is public engagement. Yet, how to generate this engagement in practice remains underexplored.
🔔ICYMI: The latest from @scastell.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub
www.publicdeliberation.net/mini-publics...
🔔ICYMI: The latest from @scastell.bsky.social & Stephen Elstub
www.publicdeliberation.net/mini-publics...
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Citizen's Assemblies can't be "stuffed with like-minded eco-zealots" otherwise they aren't Citizen's Assemblies. & even if 100 people all want change and recommend it in an Assembly, the power and accountability to decide remains with the elected representatives.
Citizen's Assemblies can't be "stuffed with like-minded eco-zealots" otherwise they aren't Citizen's Assemblies. & even if 100 people all want change and recommend it in an Assembly, the power and accountability to decide remains with the elected representatives.
Taking net zero policies out of the hands of elected officials is a bad idea
Plans for a Climate and Nature Assembly will turbocharge ideologically-driven eco targets and create a Green dictatorship
www.express.co.uk
January 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
www.express.co.uk/news/politic...
Citizen's Assemblies can't be "stuffed with like-minded eco-zealots" otherwise they aren't Citizen's Assemblies. & even if 100 people all want change and recommend it in an Assembly, the power and accountability to decide remains with the elected representatives.
Citizen's Assemblies can't be "stuffed with like-minded eco-zealots" otherwise they aren't Citizen's Assemblies. & even if 100 people all want change and recommend it in an Assembly, the power and accountability to decide remains with the elected representatives.
Involve is recruiting for a new Chair and new Trustees 👇.
As you start your break - are you thinking about what you might contribute, to safeguard and improve our democracy at this critical time?
Consider stewarding an ambitious organisation, that holds remedies for our democratic ills.
As you start your break - are you thinking about what you might contribute, to safeguard and improve our democracy at this critical time?
Consider stewarding an ambitious organisation, that holds remedies for our democratic ills.
Democracy is key to tackling the challenges we face, but it isn’t working as it should.
If you believe, as we do, that a new type of democracy is needed, and that the UK is on the cusp of making this change — then join our Board of Trustees. 👇
https://buff.ly/4iHajWo
If you believe, as we do, that a new type of democracy is needed, and that the UK is on the cusp of making this change — then join our Board of Trustees. 👇
https://buff.ly/4iHajWo
December 21, 2024 at 10:28 AM
Involve is recruiting for a new Chair and new Trustees 👇.
As you start your break - are you thinking about what you might contribute, to safeguard and improve our democracy at this critical time?
Consider stewarding an ambitious organisation, that holds remedies for our democratic ills.
As you start your break - are you thinking about what you might contribute, to safeguard and improve our democracy at this critical time?
Consider stewarding an ambitious organisation, that holds remedies for our democratic ills.
We are at your disposal to help engage people in a fair and transparent way.
The Spending Review will decide how to spend tax payers money on your priorities.
Rachel Reeves MP and I launched the review today. We will look at every pound spent and it will conclude in June 2025.
I’ll be getting around the country to invite you to be part of the process.
Rachel Reeves MP and I launched the review today. We will look at every pound spent and it will conclude in June 2025.
I’ll be getting around the country to invite you to be part of the process.
December 10, 2024 at 10:29 PM
We are at your disposal to help engage people in a fair and transparent way.
Reposted by Sarah Castell
The House of Commons Library is a national treasure, and this looks like a really valuable primer, by David Torrance, on how laws are made, where powers are exercised, and what we need to know if we want to understand how (and by whom) we're governed.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
The United Kingdom constitution - a mapping exercise
A briefing paper which "maps" (or summarises) the main elements of the United Kingdom's uncodified constitution.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk
November 27, 2024 at 10:31 PM
The House of Commons Library is a national treasure, and this looks like a really valuable primer, by David Torrance, on how laws are made, where powers are exercised, and what we need to know if we want to understand how (and by whom) we're governed.
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-bri...
Reposted by Sarah Castell
The broader public being aware of and engaged with the work of deliberative mini-publics is central to their democratic value.
In this conversation, @scastell.bsky.social and @stephene.bsky.social discuss why public engagement is so important - and so challenging.
#CitizensAssembly
In this conversation, @scastell.bsky.social and @stephene.bsky.social discuss why public engagement is so important - and so challenging.
#CitizensAssembly
Mini-publics and the public: challenges and opportunities | Deliberative Democracy Digest
www.publicdeliberation.net
November 24, 2024 at 6:59 PM
The broader public being aware of and engaged with the work of deliberative mini-publics is central to their democratic value.
In this conversation, @scastell.bsky.social and @stephene.bsky.social discuss why public engagement is so important - and so challenging.
#CitizensAssembly
In this conversation, @scastell.bsky.social and @stephene.bsky.social discuss why public engagement is so important - and so challenging.
#CitizensAssembly
Reposted by Sarah Castell
Aim is to take complex questions to a space where there is a fuller debate. Assisted dying cuts across political spectrum so falls beyond party politics. Proposal is not for CA to take decisions but to inform debate in open, democratic way. We use other devices for comparable ends -judicial review.
CA.to
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 AM
Aim is to take complex questions to a space where there is a fuller debate. Assisted dying cuts across political spectrum so falls beyond party politics. Proposal is not for CA to take decisions but to inform debate in open, democratic way. We use other devices for comparable ends -judicial review.
Reposted by Sarah Castell
Assisted dying is exactly the sort of morally and ethically complex issue which is fruitfully explored through a citizens assembly. It takes the issue away from Politicians and places deliberation in hands of people charged to consider it over time with no distraction. We need to use this approach.
November 27, 2024 at 10:10 AM
Assisted dying is exactly the sort of morally and ethically complex issue which is fruitfully explored through a citizens assembly. It takes the issue away from Politicians and places deliberation in hands of people charged to consider it over time with no distraction. We need to use this approach.
Great to see Rafael putting forward the important role of public deliberation in complex moral and social choices, & to chat with him about it in advance. There's still time for a Citizens' Assembly on Assisted Dying...
Column, on a mishapen debate around assisted dying and how it could be done better. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
MPs will vote, but there is a better way to decide who has the right to die | Rafael Behr
In an age of cynicism and mistrust, politicians must work harder to involve the public in difficult decisions, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Great to see Rafael putting forward the important role of public deliberation in complex moral and social choices, & to chat with him about it in advance. There's still time for a Citizens' Assembly on Assisted Dying...