Hendriks, C & Carson L (2008) Policy Sciences, Vol. 41, No. 4, December, pp. 293-313 Deliberative ideals have become commercial goods bought and sold in an expanding consultancy market. In this market, demand is generated by government and advocacy groups seeking innovative ways to engage with the public. On the supply side are a growing...
Research Papers
Civic Engagement and the Promise of a New Citizenry
Jonathan Rose, Queen’s University. Occasional paper no. 2. State Services Authority of Victoria, Australia and New Zealand School of Government, February 2009. There is a common refrain among policy advocates, politicians and academics that the key to halting the ever-quickening decline of democratic participation is re-engaging citizens in democratic life. Governments typically respond by adding...Continue reading
The Promise and Limits of Citizens’ Assemblies: Deliberation, Institutions and the Law of Democracy
Michael Pal, University of Toronto – Faculty of Law; Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation November 16, 2012 (2012) 38(1) Queen’s Law Journal 259 Abstract: Recent experiments with deliberative democracy in British Columbia and Ontario have brought new life to the debate over electoral reform in Canada and have called into question the roles of the...
Random Selection, Republican Self-Government, and Deliberative Democracy
Yves Sintomer Published in Constellations Volume 17, No 3, 2010. 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Abstract: This paper explores the rationale for – and contemporary examples of – the use of stratified random selection to achieve descriptively representative mini-publics for the purpose of citizen deliberation. Full Research Paper