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A People Powered Response to the Climate Crisis (Scottish Green Conference)

We are facing a climate crisis, to find solutions that work for people across Scotland we need to change the...

Constitutional Convention

A People Powered Response to the Climate Crisis (SNP Conference)

We are facing a climate crisis, to find solutions that work for people across Scotland we need to change the...

Here To Stay Two Decades of Proportional Representation in Britain

Here to Stay: Two Decades of Proportional Representation in Britain

The 6 May 2021 was a milestone for the campaign for fairer votes in Britain. The date marked the sixth...

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

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...

When Scottish voters go to the polls they go knowing their vote will count

How May’s elections for the Scottish Parliament will work

Among the wave of elections that will be held on 6 May, voters across Scotland will be called to elect...

Only real local democracy can rebuild our communities

The last twelve months have changed the way many of us think about our everyday lives. The lockdowns necessitated by...

There should be no off-switch for transparency

This loophole is letting lobbying go under the radar in Scotland

A major loophole in Scotland’s lobbying register is undermining transparency – with voters left in the dark about lobbying during...

“Citizens’ assemblies are being used to upgrade Scottish democracy”

Holyrood must take forward the Citizens’ Assembly’s calls to revamp Scottish democracy

Politicians must move Scottish democracy forward by putting citizens at the centre, the ERS and 17 other leading organisations and...

Scotland’s local democracy is not an optional extra

The experience of the covid-19 crisis has served to underline and strengthen the case ERS Scotland has long been making...

Constitutional Convention

Scottish House of Citizens

The Citizens' Assembly of Scotland proposed an idea that could ensure all of Scotland is reflected in Holyrood - a...

House of Lords

Replace Lords with a senate of the regions to help ‘level up’

Overhauling Parliament’s London-dominated second chamber would help empower the UK’s nations and regions, writes a senior director at the Electoral...

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...