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Beyond the ballot: 57 democratic innovations from around the world
No full textThe aim of this study is to provide The Power Inquiry with details and assessments of democratic innovations that might increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision-making process. The study analyses fifty-seven different innovations – eleven of these are considered in more depth in case studies
Deliberative Democracy and the Environment
No full textContemporary democracies are frequently criticized for failing to respond adequately to environmental problems and our political institutions are often charged with misrepresenting environmental values in decision-making processes. In this innovative volume, Graham Smith argues that the enhancement and institutionalisation of democratic deliberation will improve reflection on the wide range of environmental values that citizens hold.
Drawing on theories of deliberative democracy, Smith argues that institutions need to be restructured in order to promote democratic dialogue and reflection on the plurality of environmental values.
Deliberative Democracy and the Environment makes an important contribution to our understanding of the relationship between democratic and green political theory. Drawing on evidence from Europe and the United States, it systematically engages with questions of institutional design. This book will be of interest to students and researchers in both environmental and democratic politics
Deliberativna demokracija i javnosti u malom [Deliberative Democracy and Mini-publics]
No full textThe increasing use of mini-publics in the policy process, ranging from citizens’ juries and deliberative polls to the more recent British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly, has coincided with the emergence of theories of deliberative democracy. A growing number of deliberative democrats have turned their attention to mini-publics arguing that they embody desirable institutional characteristics. This article analyses the extent to which mini-publics live up to the deliberative ideal and the ways in which the analysis of the practice of mini-publics allows us to reflect on the evaluative commitments of theorist
Democratic innovations: designing institutions for citizen participation
No full textCan we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision making process? At a time when there is growing disillusionment with the institutions of advanced industrial democracies, there is also increasing interest in new ways of involving citizens in the political decisions that affect their lives. This book draws together evidence from a variety of democratic innovations from around the world, including participatory budgeting in Brazil, Citizens’ Assemblies on Electoral Reform in Canada, direct legislation in California and Switzerland and emerging experiments in e-democracy. The book offers a rare systematic analysis of this diverse range of democratic innovations, drawing lessons for the future development of both democratic theory and practice
Toward deliberative institutions
No full textContents:Introduction Democratic Innovation Michael Saward Part I: Deliberative Democracy: Advocacy and Critique 1. The quest for deliberative democracy James S. Fishkin and Robert C. Luskin 2. Toward deliberative institutions Graham Smith 3. Deliberation as public use of reason - or, what public? Whose reason? Tiina Rattila 4. The EU's democratic deficit: a deliberative perspective Erik O Eriksen 5. Less than meets the eye: democratic legitimacy and deliberative theory Michael Saward Part II: Interest, Deliberation and the Rethinking of Representation 7. Group representation, deliberation, and the displacement of dichotomies Judith Squires 8. From theory to practice and back again: gender quota and the politics of presence in Belgium Petra Meier 9. Deliberative democracy, ecological representation and risk: towards a democracy of the affected Robin Eckersley 10. Ecological constitutionalism and the limits of deliberation and representation Mike Mills and Fraser King 11. Governance, self-representation and democratic imagination Henrik Paul Bang and Torben Bech Dyrberg Part III: Associations and Democracy 12. Active citizenship and associative democracy Piotr Perczynski 13. Associative democracy - fashionable slogan or constructive innovation? Sigrid RoSSteutscher 14. Social capital, associations and civic republicanism Francisco Herreros 15. Deliberative democracy versus direct democracy - plus political parties! Ian Budge Conclusion Variation, innovation and democratic renewal Michael Sawar
Green citizenship and the social economy
No full textContemporary green political theory has paid little attention to the role that economic organisations can play in the cultivation and expression of green citizenship. This paper argues that the ethos and structure of organisations within the social economy – for example, cooperatives, mutuals and voluntary associations – appear particularly well suited for the development of relevant dispositions, skills and capacities. The associative reform of both the welfare state and the for-private-profit economy therefore offers a challenging and creative strategy for enhancing green citizenship
Ekonomia spo?eczna, przedsi?biorstwospo?eczne i teoria d emokracji stowarzyszeniowej
No full textSocial economy organisations have generally been ignored by democratic theorists. Similarly writers on the socialeconomy have failed to engage with normative theories of democracy. This paper argues that Paul Hirst’s theory of associative democracy can be considered a democratic theory of and for the social economy: self-governing associations become the primary form of social organisation. The paper considers the regulatory framework that would be needed to promote associative democratic reform, in particular the problems of regulating internal democratic practice. Drawing on the case of England, we explore the extent to which actually-existing legal and fiscal frameworks could be utilised to enable such a transition
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