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Nudge or Deliberate: competing views of how to change civic behaviour.

A discussion with Professor Gerry Stoker (Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Southampton) chaired by Involve's Richard Wilson took place on Thursday 26th February 2009.

Gerry Stoker is Professor of Politics and Governance at the University of Southampton and the director of the Centre for Citizenship and Democracy in Southampton. The discussion dealt with issues of citizen empowerment and strategies for encouraging civic behaviour among citizens - namely the Nudge and Deliberate theories.

For a briefing from the seminar please click here

For Gerry Stoker's PowerPoint presentation please click here

Gerry's most recent book Why Politics Matters: Making Democracy Work explores the complex sets of problems that lie behind our struggle with politics. It is suggested that a substantial part of our discontent is because the discourse and practice of collective decision-makings sits very uncomfortably alongside our daily experience of individual choice. A cycle of disaffection with democracy ultimately runs the risk of undermining public support for it. Gerry explains that we can rethink the way that we do politics to address the challenges that we face.

For more inforamtion on Gerry Stoker's work please visit www.civicbehaviour.org.uk