{"id":538,"date":"2013-07-25T11:17:22","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/?p=538"},"modified":"2013-07-25T11:17:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-25T11:17:22","slug":"event-how-do-we-write-the-rules-in-a-good-scottish-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/event-how-do-we-write-the-rules-in-a-good-scottish-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"Event: How do we write the rules in a good Scottish democracy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">ERS Scotland invites you to join us to hear some of the ideas we&#8217;ve being talking about in relation to how we might introduce effective checks and balances to ensure a good democracy in Scotland is guaranteed and protected.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As part of our Democracy Max inquiry, we asked the people of Scotland for their ideas about a good Scottish democracy at a day long deliberative discussion: The People&#8217;s Gathering. Then, each chapter of the findings of the People&#8217;s Gathering is being discussed by a roundtable of academics, commentators, campaigners and community activitists.<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re at the end of stage three of the process and we want to hear your thoughts and ideas at an interactive conversation and discussion event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some of the questions asked during the &#8216;How do we write the rules?&#8217; phase of the inquiry include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>As we enter the next phase of Scotland&#8217;s devolution journey, should we take stock of progress so far and ask if the Scottish Parliament is meeting the aspirations of 1999?<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">Whatever the result of the referendum should we consider some kind of participative consultation across Scotland to find out how Scotland should shape it&#8217;s democratic future?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">If we instigate such a deliberative and inclusive process, would it inevitably require some kind of written constitution type document to result?<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"text-align: justify\">Should both the campaigns and all the parties be asked to sign up to key democratic principles which would be respected whatever the result of the referendum?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">If you are interested in discussing these issues, or have additional ideas or suggestions for how we might guarantee rights and responsibilities in a good Scottish democracy, please join us on Thursday August 8th at the Graham Hills Building, George Street, Glasgow. 6.30pm-8.30pm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Register here:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/democracy-max.eventbrite.co.uk\/\">http:\/\/democracy-max.eventbrite.co.uk\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ERS Scotland invites you to join us to hear some of the ideas we&#8217;ve being talking about in relation to how we might introduce effective checks and balances to ensure a good democracy in Scotland is guaranteed and protected. As &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/event-how-do-we-write-the-rules-in-a-good-scottish-democracy\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":540,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538\/revisions\/540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk\/referendum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}