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Steph Coulter, Rebecca McKee, Jack Pannell, Jess Sargeant, The British Political Tradition and Constitutional Policy: The Offer of Deliberative Mini Publics, Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 77, Issue 4, October 2024, Pages 765–789, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/gsae022
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Abstract
The Review of the UK Constitution was an eighteen-month project assessing the functioning of the UK constitution resulting in a set of practical, innovative, and robust recommendations. This article draws out one theme from this research, the offer of Deliberative Mini Publics (DMPs) in the process of constitutional change in the UK. Using Marsh, Richards, and Smith’s ‘Asymmetric Power Model’ as a mechanism for understanding the centralised and top–down nature of British democracy, we argue that the integration of DMPs can offer an opportunity to mitigate some of the core problems with the functioning of the UK constitution and produce better constitutional policy.