Designing Deliberative Democracy - The British Columbia Citizens'Assembly

Informationen zum Autor Mark E. Warren holds the Harold and Dorrie Merilees Chair for the Study of Democracy and is Academic Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions at the University of British Columbia. Hilary Pearse is a Ph.D. candidate and Commonwealth Scholar in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. Klappentext The first authoritative assessment of a unique application of deliberative democracy. Zusammenfassung The idea of 'deliberative democracy' suggests that democracies need collective deliberation and reflection as much as they need voting to make public decisions. Contributors to this book assess the merits of the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly! an unprecedented deliberative institution which empowered ordinary citizens to redesign their electoral system. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary Pearse, Mark E. Warren, Mark E. Pearse Warren
• Assisted by: Hilary Pearse (Editor), Pearse Hilary (Editor), Mark E. Warren (Editor), Warren Mark E. (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.02.2008
• EAN: 9780521885072
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88507-2
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 237 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Theories of Institutional Desi; Theories of Institutional Design
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; British Columbia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political Economy, Comparative Politics