The Politics In Spires Schools blog series
The Departments blog Politics in Spires is currently running Politics in Schools: a series of posts written in response to discussions between DPIR postgraduate students and 6th Form pupils.
As part of a pilot project to extend the discussion of DPIR research, a group of our postgraduate students made visits to a small number of schools last year to present and discuss the Department’s research programme.
The articles by DPIR academic staff and postgraduate students have been written in response to these discussions and to the questions raised by the school students.
The blog posts include:
- Stuart White: ‘Towards a citizens’ inheritance?’ Stuart White reviews the proposal for passing a proportion of wealth between the generations to finance a capital grant in early adulthood for every citizen.
- Michael Freeden: 'On Political Ideologies'. Michael Freeden explains the importance of political ideologies to every aspect of political and social life.
- Ruth Dixon and Christopher Hood: 'Yesterday’s Tomorrows – What Happened to the Future of Government?' Christopher Hood and Ruth Dixon explain the results of their recent project aiming to assess the effects of successive efforts to reform the government of the UK over the past thirty years.
- James Tilley: 'What would change if the voting age was lowered to sixteen?' James Tilley investigates the potential political impact of extending the franchise to 16 and 17 year olds.
You can read more by clicking here: http://politicsinspires.org/special-series/schools/
