Innovative Citizen Participation And New Democratic Institutions

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264725904

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions Catching the Deliberative Wave by OECD Pdf

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues.

Author : Graham Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521514774

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Democratic Innovations by Graham Smith Pdf

This book examines democratic innovations from around the world, drawing lessons for the future development of both democratic theory and practice.

Author : Oecd
Publisher : Org. for Economic Cooperation & Development
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264837620

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions by Oecd Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 926432626X

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions by Anonim Pdf

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day - and often much longer - to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues. This "deliberative wave" has been building since the 1980s, gaining momentum since around 2010. This report has gathered close to 300 representative deliberative practices to explore trends in such processes, identify different models, and analyse the trade-offs among different design choices as well as the benefits and limits of public deliberation. It includes Good Practice Principles for Deliberative Processes for Public Decision Making, based on comparative empirical evidence gathered by the OECD and in collaboration with leading practitioners from government, civil society, and academics. Finally, the report explores the reasons and routes for embedding deliberative activities into public institutions to give citizens a more permanent and meaningful role in shaping the policies affecting their lives.

Author : Brigitte Geißel,Marko Joas
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847403715

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Participatory Democratic Innovations in Europe by Brigitte Geißel,Marko Joas Pdf

Representative democracy is often seen as a stable institutional system insusceptible to change. However, the preferences of the broad public are changing and representative, group based democracy has lost importance. This development made it necessary to change established ways of decision making and to introduce participatory democratic innovations. Many national and sub-national governments followed this route and implemented various kinds of participatory innovations, i.e. the inclusion of citizens into processes of political will-formation and decisionmaking. The authors analyse and evaluate the various effects of these innovations in Europe, providing a bigger picture of the benefits and disadvantages different democratic innovations can result in.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9264563180

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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions by Anonim Pdf

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least one full day - and often much longer - to learn, deliberate, and develop collective recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving multifaceted public issues. This "deliberative wave" has been building since the 1980s, gaining momentum since around 2010. This report has gathered close to 300 representative deliberative practices to explore trends in such processes, identify different models, and analyse the trade-offs among different design choices as well as the benefits and limits of public deliberation. It includes Good Practice Principles for Deliberative Processes for Public Decision Making, based on comparative empirical evidence gathered by the OECD and in collaboration with leading practitioners from government, civil society, and academics. Finally, the report explores the reasons and routes for embedding deliberative activities into public institutions to give citizens a more permanent and meaningful role in shaping the policies affecting their lives.

Author : Hollie Russon Gilman
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815726838

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Democracy Reinvented by Hollie Russon Gilman Pdf

Participatory Budgeting—the experiment in democracy that could redefine how public budgets are decided in the United States. Democracy Reinvented is the first comprehensive academic treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, situating it within a broader trend of civic technology and innovation. This global phenomenon, which has been called "revolutionary civics in action" by the New York Times, started in Brazil in 1989 but came to America only in 2009. Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and vote on how to spend public funds. Democracy Reinvented places participatory budgeting within the larger discussion of the health of U.S. democracy and focuses on the enabling political and institutional conditions. Author and former White House policy adviser Hollie Russon Gilman presents theoretical insights, indepth case studies, and interviews to offer a compelling alternative to the current citizen disaffection and mistrust of government. She offers policy recommendations on how to tap online tools and other technological and civic innovations to promote more inclusive governance. While most literature tends to focus on institutional changes without solutions, this book suggests practical ways to empower citizens to become change agents. Reinvesting in Democracy also includes a discussion on the challenges and opportunities that come with using digital tools to re-engage citizens in governance.

Author : Stephen Elstub,Oliver Escobar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786433862

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Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance by Stephen Elstub,Oliver Escobar Pdf

Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. These new processes of public participation are reimagining the relationship between citizens and institutions. This Handbook advances understanding of democratic innovations, in theory and practice, by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. The overarching themes are a focus on citizens and their relationship to these innovations, and the resulting effects on political equality. The Handbook therefore offers a definitive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice.

Author : Cristina Lafont
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780198848189

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Democracy Without Shortcuts by Cristina Lafont Pdf

This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.

Author : Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright
Publisher : Verso
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1859846882

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Deepening Democracy by Archon Fung,Erik Olin Wright Pdf

The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264019492

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Promise and Problems of E-Democracy Challenges of Online Citizen Engagement by OECD Pdf

This book highlights policy lessons in using ICTs to provide information, opportunities for consultation and public participation in policy-making. It includes numerous examples of current practice from 12 OECD member countries (Australia, Canada ...

Author : Vera Schatten Coelho,Bettina von Liers
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781848139152

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Mobilizing for Democracy by Vera Schatten Coelho,Bettina von Liers Pdf

Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264859012

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Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes by OECD Pdf

The purpose of this document is to help public authorities initiate and develop better representative deliberative processes by establishing a minimum standard for their evaluation. These guidelines provide policy makers and practitioners with an evaluation framework and methodology, as well as evaluation questionnaires.

Author : Carolyn M. Hendriks,Selen A. Ercan,John Boswell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780198843054

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Mending Democracy by Carolyn M. Hendriks,Selen A. Ercan,John Boswell Pdf

This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair.

Author : Maija Setälä
Publisher : ECPR Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781907301322

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Deliberative Mini-Publics by Maija Setälä Pdf

The first comprehensive account of the booming phenomenon of deliberative mini-publics, this book offers a systematic review of their variety, discusses their weaknesses, and recommends ways to make them a viable component of democracy. The book takes stock of the diverse practices of deliberative mini-publics and, more concretely, looks at preconditions, processes, and outcomes. It provides a critical assessment of the experience with mini-publics; in particular their lack of policy impact. Bringing together leading scholars in the field, notably James S Fishkin and Mark E Warren, Deliberative Mini-Publics will speak to anyone with an interest in democracy and democratic innovations.