Tag: Claudia Landwehr

Be careful what you wish for: Brexit and the call for another referendum

Be careful what you wish for: Brexit and the call for another referendum

Whether or not to hold a referendum on Brexit is a clear dividing line between parties in the upcoming UK general election. However, Philipp Harms and Claudia Landwehr argue that support for such a measure is often largely contingent on expected outcomes, and so can entrench political divides. More deliberative democratic innovations might therefore be better suited to resolving the UK’s political conflicts.

The design of healthcare institutions benefits greatly from citizen participation

The design of healthcare institutions benefits greatly from citizen participation

Whether healthcare policy should be clinician or politician-led has been the source of much controversy  in recent years in the UK, with this debate reaching a peak with the debates which accompanied the passage of the Health and Social Care Act. Claudia Landwehr from the University of Mainz considers how to make decisions over health care more […]