I enjoyed listening to this talk about how we might reinvigorate UK democracy. I was very particularly pleased to hear the presenter call for an opening up of scientific decision-making in a much more open process of democratic deliberation.
https://twitter.com/TPpodcast_/status/1345627957277073408
I have long been interested in how we give democratic bite and purchase on the conduct of public business. I am particularly interested in the use of political juries to oversee elites, and to develop knowledge that stands outside, and in some senses above ...
... the shared understandings and accommodations of those elites. The life sciences, like finance and many other aspects of public policy, are intensely vulnerable to capture by privileged insiders. 
Tackling these problems entails a very different, much more equal, distribution of communicative power. We can get some of the way through experiments in civil society. But in the end it is a matter of constitutional design. thenextsystem.org/learn/stories/…
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