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Global governance and deliberative designs: a conversation between George Monbiot and Lyn Carson
No full textGeorge Monbiot\u27s recent book, The Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order, tackles the problem of \u27democratic deficit\u27 in a world where democracy seems to be the only political system worth considering. Monbiot challenges democrats everywhere to accept his controversial idea of a world parliament based on proportional representation, consistent with the population of each country. To encourage debate, Monbiot called for alternative propositions, not unhelpful opposition. Lyn Carson\u27s research with random selection in small-scale deliberative governance was the starting point for their recent conversation. In the spirit of Monbiot\u27s challenge, she suggests an alternative approach to global democratisation
Deliberative democracy
No full textProfessor Lyn Carson from the Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy at the University of Western Sydney talks about using deliberative democracy to solve the world\u27s \u27wicked problems\u27.
Guests
Lyn Carson
Professorial Fellow,
Centre for Citizenship and Public Policy,
University of Western Sydney
 
Citizens and governments: stroppy adversaries or partners in deliberation?
No full textAt a time when dissatisfaction with politicians is glaringly evident, the solution is not less democracy, of course; it is deeper democracy. And in deliberative experiments around the world, goverments and NGOs are attempting to extend citizen participation beyond voting, lobbying, and protesting. Lyn Carson assesses these experiments
Getting over post-election blues
No full textMany disappointed supporters of Mark Latham and John Kerry will be waiting for their next chance at the ballot box. But would the world be different if elections in 2004 had gone the other way? Maybe not, Brian Martin and Lyn Carson suggest, so here are their ideas for what to do about it, through grassroots action, participatory initiatives and new structures for participation
Designing a public conversation using the World Café method
No full textLeaders talk about holding large-scale public conversations, but they won\u27t succeed if the methods are unsatisfying for participants, if an authentic conversation occurs at all. In this paper, Lyn Carson presents the World Café method, a viable way of involving large numbers of people in a meaningful, conversational exchange. She describes how a particular World Café event was designed, and then explore the value of the World Café method as a means to achieve social change.
Report image: The Hon. Fred Chaney AO chaired the panel for theWorld Café at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney 2010
Community consultation in environmental policy making
No full textLyn Carson, Stuart White, Carolyn Hendriks and Jane Palmer report on a consultation experiment they conducted confirming community support for container deposit legislation in NSW. They claim that the greater the level of deliberation, the more confident policy makers can be in the results of community consultation. Further, some consultation methods are more likely than others to stimulate creative resolution of complex environmental issues and can certainly add value to the policy making process, especially when policies are contentious and value-laden
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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