Our blog will provide an opportunity for members of the RPI, and guest commentators, to express personal views of regulatory matters. It will sometimes include essays, sometimes biographies and snippets, and sometimes will highlight research papers, possibly from earlier years, that still seem relevant to current issues.
What does the UK want?
12 January 2019
George Yarrow
The governance system of the UK has suffered Brexit paralysis for 30 months in the face of a parent-to-child question “What do you want?” It has been asked many times over in the capitals of Europe, without any apparent, great success in eliciting a clear response. It is time to end the statis by testing out the preferences of MPs.
With a little bit of help from basic social science the initial exercise could be simple and very quick. The aim is limited — to discover more about preference orderings — not to invent a voting mechanism that will be determinative …
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