Rediscovering the civic and achieving better outcomes in public policy
The Institute for Political and Economic Governance (IPEG) at the University of Manchester is working with the Centre for Citizenship and Democracy at the University of Southampton on an ESRC funded research programme ‘Rediscovering the Civic and Achieving Better Outcomes in Public Policy’. It is a new extensive research project on what causes civic behaviour and what its impact is. Our aim is to investigate the most effective ways to encourage active citizenship.
In the best traditions of applied social science, our research aims to be methodologically innovative and to use the experimental method to test out the interventions public authorities can use to stimulate civic engagement.
It is a multi project enterprise to include the following-
- Analysis of existing survey data to understand the civic-outcome
- A deliberative intervention
- Design experiments
- Randomised Control Trials
Project investigators
- Sarah Cotterill - The University of Manchester
- Ed Fieldhouse - The University of Manchester
- Peter John - The University of Manchester
- Hanhua Liu - The University of Manchester
- Liz Richardson - The University of Manchester
- Graham Smith - University of Southampton
- Gerry Stoker - University of Southampton
- Corinne Wales - University of Southampton
Project partners
- The University of Manchester
- The University of Southampton
Project funders
- Economic & Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Communities & Local Government (CLG)
- North West Improvement Network (NWIN)
Relevant links
- ESRC project web page
- Centre for Citizenship and Democracy, University of Southampton
- School of Social Sciences, The University of Manchester
- North West Improvement Network (NWIEP)
- Centre for Local Governance (CfLG)
- Communities and Local Government
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