Legitimacy of Citizen-Led Deliberative Democracy - The G1000 in Belgium

Informationen zum Autor Didier Caluwaerts is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. His research interests are deliberative and participatory democracy, and democratic, social, and public sector innovation. Min Reuchamps is Professor of Political Science at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. His teaching and research interests are federalism and multi-level governance, democracy and its different dimensions, as well as participatory and deliberative methods. Zusammenfassung This book assesses both the legitimacy and function of deliberative systems in the real world and how individual sites of deliberation interact within the larger political system, looking particularly through the prism of the citizen-led mini-public G1000 in Belgium, which grew out of a feeling of deep democratic crisis. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Studying the Legitimacy of Citizen-led Deliberative Democracy 1. Democratic Innovation in an Unlikely Place 2. The G1000 and the Funnel of Citizen Participation 3. Participants and Non-participants 4. Democratic Credentials and Trade-offs 5. Deliberation and the Challenge of Multilingualism 6. Political Uptake 7. Public Endorsement 8. Social Offspring and Long-term Consequences Conclusion: Deliberation between Mini- and Maxi-public

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• Authors: Didier Caluwaerts, Didier (Vrije Universiteit Brussel Caluwaerts, Didier Reuchamps Caluwaerts, Didier/ Reuchamps Caluwaerts, Caluwaerts Didier, Min Reuchamps, Min (Universite Catholique De Louvain Reuchamps, Reuchamps Min
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2018
• EAN: 9781138281943
• ISBN: 978-1-138-28194-3
• No. of pages: 174
• Series: Democratization Studies; Democratization Studies; Democratization and Autocratization Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political science & theory, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory