Born from the partygate scandal in the UK, discover how the movement has evolved to challenge the two-party system and dismiss party politics in favour of a more direct, deliberative democracy that empowers citizens
We believe the greatest threat to democracy is the illusion that we live in one. Only 12% of people trust political parties in the UK. A survey of over 1 million people showed only 1.9% chose policies that fit within a single political party. The current UK Government has been elected on the lowest turnout since universal suffrage.
A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.
An initiative to use participatory practice to address the democratic deficit in AI governance, and bring greater alignment with the public interest, agency for communities, and accountability to AI governance.
