Mediation Perspectives: The Speaker as Mediator in a Polarized Parliament

Author(s): Katrina Abatis
Series: Mediation Perspectives
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2019

In this blog post, Katrina Abatis discusses the role of John Bercow, former Speaker of the House of Commons, in keeping democratic debates going in spite of the political polarization in the aftermath of the vote on the UK leaving the European Union. She argues that Bercow relied on a number of tools commonly used by mediation practitioners when facilitating the debates in the House of Commons.

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