Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics

Robert E. Goodin and John S. Dryzek
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Robert E. Goodin: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University goodinb@coombs.anu.edu.au
John S. Dryzek: Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University jdryzek@coombs.anu.edu.au

Politics & Society, 2006, vol. 34, issue 2, 219-244

Abstract: Democratic theorists often place deliberative innovations such as citizen's panels, consensus conferences, planning cells, and deliberative polls at the center of their hopes for deliberative democratization. In light of experience to date, the authors chart the ways in which such mini-publics may have an impact in the “macro†world of politics. Impact may come in the form of actually making policy, being taken up in the policy process, informing public debates, market-testing of proposals, legitimation of public policies, building confidence and constituencies for policies, popular oversight, and resisting co-option. Exposing problems and failures is all too easy. The authors highlight cases of success on each of these dimensions.

Keywords: deliberative democracy; mini-publics; consensus conferences; citizen participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329206288152

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