Designing Deliberative Democracy (eBook, PDF)

The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly
Redaktion: Warren, Mark E.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key propositions of democratic theory and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511381133
• Artikelnr.: 38206286

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: democratic renewal and deliberative democracy Mark E. Warren
and Hilary Pearse; 1. Who should govern who governs? The role of citizens
in reforming the electoral system Dennis F. Thompson; 2. Citizen
representatives Mark E. Warren; 3. Institutional design and citizen
deliberation Hilary Pearse; 4. Agenda setting in deliberative forums:
expert influence and citizen autonomy in the British Columbia Citizens'
Assembly Amy Lang; 5. Descriptive representation in the British Columbia
Citizens' Assembly Michael Rabinder James; 6. Do citizens' assemblies make
reasoned choices? André Blais, R. Kenneth Carty and Patrick Fournier; 7.
Communicative rationality in the Citizens' Assembly and referendum process
R. S. Ratner; 8. Deliberation, information and trust: the British Columbia
Citizens' Assembly as agenda setter Fred Cutler, Richard Johnston, R.
Kenneth Carty, André Blais and Patrick Fournier; Conclusion: the citizens'
assembly model John Ferejohn.