OPEN SEMINAR

In New Zealand, and elsewhere, there is widespread dissatisfaction with how governments operate. Attempting to make governments work more like markets has failed to deliver promised change. But deep democracy – which finds ways for citizens to come together, intelligently discuss issues, and directly shape policy – offers a way to create governments ft for the 21st century. Come and hear Max Rashbrooke discuss these exciting ideas and his new book Government for the Public Good: The Surprising Science of Large-Scale Collective Action.

Max Rashbrooke (Institute for Governance and Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) is an awardwinning author, journalist and academic. A writer in Britain and New Zealand for the Guardian, the National Business Review and Metro, he has twice been the recipient of the Bruce Jesson Senior Journalism Award, and was a 2015 Winston Churchill Fellow.