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Monday 9 March 2026, 5.00pm – 6.45pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Current Members of Parliament and St Antony’s College Visiting Parliamentary Fellows The Rt Hon Damian Hinds MP and Ms Stella Creasy MP present the next in this insightful seminar series:
Is the changed relationship between voters and legislators due to the development of the Internet a boon for good decision-making – or a challenge?
Deliberative politics versus the Internet: is technology creating a democratic deficit?
Constitutions like the US’s were deliberately designed to slow down decision-making and put ‘grit in the system’ (and England’s did so organically). Tech can speed things up dramatically with real-time polling and electronic voting, and facilitates a huge increase in immediate voter-to-legislator contact. Is that a boon for good decision-making or a challenge? Are there implications for parties and parliaments?