“A Scottish Spring – Building a Democracy for the 21st Century”
On 26th April the Electoral Reform Society held a conference in Edinburgh called A Scottish Spring with a broad range of speakers covering topics such as the rise of polarisation in democracy, Scottish public opinion, civic and local democracy in Scotland , engagement and debate. We were there and very much enjoyed the discussions and presentations. It was a full day event so we weren’t able to film every session in its entirety but these are some of our particular highlights of the day.
Topics covered in A Scottish Spring:
- 03:00 Willie Sullivan, ERS Scotland Senior Director in conversation with Professor Nicola McEwen, Director of the Centre for Public Policy
- 15:16 Marlene’s question to the panel: how do we deal with foreign donations and donors influencing our elections?
- 16:40 Mark Diffley provides an overview of Scottish public opinion including exclusive polling commissioned for the conference by the Diffley Partnership. He promised to distribute details of his presentation but they haven’t been forthcoming yet.
- 31:00 Esther Roberton, former Co-ordinator of the Scottish Constitutional Convention on the aspirations for the Scottish Parliament and how well it has lived up to those
- 40:17 Pauline Smith, Chief Executive, Development Trusts Association Scotland on local democracy
- 45:00 Mark Drakeford, former First Minister of Wales on alternative forms of democracy for the UK
- This podcast is also available as a video on our YouTube Channel: IndyPod Extra.
- Our episode on Building a Local Scotland – by creating a truly local democracy.
- Find out more about the Electoral Reform Society.
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