Its been a while since I gave Samara
the democracy measurement folks a plug but a recent visit to
their web site encouraged me to have another look around and you
should too.
Their most recent report titled
'Who's the Boss?' once again reinforces what many of us firmly
believe in that the ,satisfaction' with our democracy has dropped
from 75% in 2004 to 55% now. The only surprise to me is that its that
high but then there are still a lot of citizens not taking notice.
Their various surveys also reveal that Canadians “feel that their
MPs’ work representing constituents is falling short when compared
to MPs’ representation of their parties.” and that “Canadians
indicated feeling that their elected representatives often are not
accountable for their actions nor do they pay attention to what
Canadians think.”
Non of this is news to those of us who
have been following the goings on in the HoC and the Harper Regimes
latest moves, or for that matter the Ontario governments suspension
of parliament. Certainly Harper is one of the most talked about
politicians on twitter at #cdnpoli as revealed in their previous
research
'The Neighbourhoods of #cdnpoli' even though he “doesn’t
really engage in conversations with other Twitter users.” There is
one MP that does engage with citizens across the country in the top
ten however and that is Parliamentarian
of the Year Elizabeth May
who is #6 on the list right up there with
LeadNow. Here are the top ten Mentioned Users in #cdnpoli
(September to November 2011)
| Rank | User | # of Mentions |
| 1 | min_reyes | 2250 |
| 2 | cbcpolitics | 1860 |
| 3 | pmharper | 1749 |
| 4 | leadnowca | 1709 |
| 5 | natnewswatch | 1645 |
| 6 | elizabethmay | 1575 |
| 7 | globeandmail | 1523 |
| 8 | beari8it | 1431 |
| 9 | wicary | 1012 |
| 10 | nspector4 | 954 |
There is lots more information over at
Samara, do take a look and support their work on trying to get a
definitive measure of where our democracy is now so that we can
actually measure its decline!
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