Parliamentary committees could hold the answer to Britain’s democratic decline

British democracy is stuck in a deflated, short-term trap thanks to a number of slow burning structural changes such as the rise of the 24 hour media. Here, Professor Ian Marsh, the author of ‘Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal: Political Change in Britain, Australia and New Zealand’ argues that newly empowered Parliamentary committees hold the answer and can ground Parliament in longer-term thinking and offer a check on the ministerial dominance of Parliament.