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The POWER Inquiry was established in 2004 to explore how political participation and involvement can be increased and deepened in Britain. Its work is based on the primary belief that a healthy democracy requires the active participation of its citizens. Since the historically unprecedented decline in turnout in 2001 General Election, many political organisations have put considerable effort into analysing the roots of voter abstention and the current state of political engagement in the UK. This widely shared concern over declining electoral turnout served as the starting point for a broader investigation into the health of the connections between the public and the political process. On 27 February 2006, the Power Commission published ''Power to the People'', its final report, making 30 key recommendations designed to "save British democracy from meltdown". The recommendations included decentralising power, from central government to local government, replacing the first-past-the-post electoral system with a more responsive one, reducing the voting age to 16, and giving citizens the right to initiate legislative processes. "Power 2010" is an attempt to carry forward the concepts behind the Power Inquiry into the UK 2010 General Election. == Funding and organisation== The Inquiry was promoted as politically neutral, and its steering group, the Commission, included the "great and good" from across the political spectrum. The composition of the Commission also sought to represent directly those not conventionally involved in a project of this type. The Commissioners *Helena Kennedy, Baroness Kennedy of the Shaws, QC - Chair *Ferdinand Mount *Emma B *Paul Boakye *Phil Carey (UK) *Philip Dodd *Ben Freeman *Barbara Gill *Bano Murtuja *Frances O'Grady POWER was funded and was established by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust Limited, to mark their centenary year. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Power Inquiry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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