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ERS Scotland’s State of Scottish Democracy lecture draws crowd in Glasgow

Thank you to everyone who made it along to Govan’s Pearce Institute to hear Professor James Mitchell present the first-ever ERS Scotland State of Scottish Democracy lecture. The event was a real success. We are...

Posted 28 Nov 2022

A Scottish House of Citizens would be the opposite of Westminster’s institutionally corrupt Lords

ERS Scotland and the Sortition Foundation have ramped up calls for ‘House of Citizens’ – a revising chamber made up of ordinary voters – in Scotland, following revelations that a Conservative party donor gave the...

Posted 03 Jun 2021

A Scottish House of Citizens would stand in proud contrast to the House of Lords

It’s time to put deliberation at the heart of Scottish politics

Last Saturday the final session of the Citizen’s Assembly of Scotland concluded. The assembly, the largest deliberative event in Scotland’s history brought together ordinary people to deliberate over the issues that will shape Scotland. As...

Posted 12 Dec 2020