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Introducing a Global Theory of Change for Participatory Budgeting
Participatory budgeting has been widely celebrated around the world, but its impacts have been uneven. In this Dispatch, we explain a new global theory of change that demonstrates how participatory budgeting can lead to desired outcomes and impacts.
Can Deliberation Overcome Its Extractivist Tendencies?
Do deliberative processes merely extract knowledge from vulnerable communities without giving them anything in return? We examine alternative practices from the case of CabildoxLatAm.
How will the conversation continue? Creating discursive openings in uncivil times.
When power is unequal, we cannot let calls for civility quiet marginalized voices. Civility must create discursive openings, according to Renee G. Heath and Jennifer L. Borda in their latest piece for the Journal of Deliberative Democracy.
Online deliberation and #CivicTech
How do we design deliberation to be a technology that enables the participation of the widest sectors of society ? Here’s a roundup of this challenge.
The promises and disappointments of the French Citizens’ Convention for Climate
France’s grandiose exercise of deliberative democracy serves as a cautionary tale of the state making a promise it cannot keep.
The Impact and Ongoing Development of Deliberative Policy Analysis
In this roundtable discussion, Selen Ercan invites Hendrik Wagenaar and Carolyn Hendriks to revisit the origins of Deliberative Policy Analysis and identify the task ahead for scholars and practitioners interested in adopting and further developing this approach in a constantly changing world.
The Contours of Participatory Democracy in the 21st Century
Journal of Deliberative Democracy’s co-editor André Bächtiger challenged Cristina Lafont, Jane Mansbridge and Mark E. Warren to characterise their vision for democracy in the twenty first century and reflect on the role of democratic deliberation in fulfilling this vision.
James Francis Bohman, 1954-2021
The deliberative democracy community celebrates the work and life of Professor James Bohman, a pillar of deliberative democratic theory.
Jürg Steiner, 1935-2020
We pay tribute to Professor Jürg Steiner, one of the pioneers of the empirical study of deliberation.
Deliberative Minipublics Has Made It to Mainstream Politics: A Dispatch From Belgium
What was once a marginal proposal at democratic reform has now become a central part of the political process. Five political scientists investigate the case of the rise of minipublics in Belgium.
Japan Catches the Deliberative Wave
Are we witnessing the rise of a participatory society in Japan? Ayano Takeuchi sends a dispatch from Tokyo.
Truth and reconciliation through dialogue and deliberation: Reflections from a racially divided America
How can deliberation help America heal from racial divisions? Palma Joy Strand tells us how communities in Nebraska work towards addressing the legacies of racial injustice through decentred strategies of creative dialogue, collective commemorations and honest conversations.
A Deliberative Democrat in the Jury Room
Do deliberative democrats make good jurors? Sonia Bussu reflects on her experience as a foreperson in a London jury.
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