Rights, Mini-Publics, and Judicial Review
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DOI: 10.1017/apa.2021.51
Abstract: Landmark Supreme Court rulings determine American law by adjudicating among competing reasonable interpretations of basic political rights. Jeremy Waldron argues that this practice is democratically illegitimate because what determines the content of basic rights is… read more here.
Keywords: judicial review; publics judicial; review; mini publics ... See more keywords
The POLITICIZE dataset: an inventory of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) in Europe
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DOI: 10.1057/s41304-020-00284-9
Abstract: This note introduces the POLITICIZE dataset which contains information on the characteristics of 105 Deliberative Mini-Publics (DMPs) that took place in Europe between 2000 and 2020. Based on coding of experts regarding cases of real-life… read more here.
Keywords: publics dmps; deliberative mini; politicize dataset; dataset ... See more keywords
How do Mini-publics Affect Public Policy? Disentangling the Influences of a Mini-public on Public Policy Using the Sequential Impact Matrix Framework
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DOI: 10.1080/00344893.2020.1862901
Abstract: Several studies have investigated the impact of mini-publics on public policy. These works do not however integrate the fact that decision-makers have preferences before a minipublic, and that thes... read more here.
Keywords: public policy; policy; publics affect; mini publics ... See more keywords
Strengthen governability rather than deepen democracy: why local governments introduce participatory governance
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DOI: 10.1177/0020852318801508
Abstract: Innovations in participatory governance have been widely discussed but their introduction as such is rarely examined. This article seeks to understand why, in a context of established democracy, local authorities engage in participatory governance. Using… read more here.
Keywords: participatory governance; governability; governance; mini publics ... See more keywords
Politics at a distance: Infrastructuring knowledge flows for democratic innovation.
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DOI: 10.1177/03063127211033990
Abstract: We study efforts at promoting deliberative mini-publics as a model of democracy. Our focus is on practices supporting the circulation of know-how for doing mini-publics. In this paper we center on the building of infrastructures… read more here.
Keywords: knowledge; distance; innovation; democratic innovation ... See more keywords
Making policy information relevant to citizens: a model of deliberative mini-publics, applied to the Citizens’ Initiative Review
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DOI: 10.1332/030557317x15072086904223
Abstract: Research on deliberative mini-publics has neglected two topics: the information on which deliberation is based, and communication techniques by which mini-publics convey their findings to the public. This article sheds light on those two topics,… read more here.
Keywords: information; citizens initiative; deliberative mini; mini publics ... See more keywords
Building a Better Referendum: Linking Mini-Publics and Mass Publics in Popular Votes
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DOI: 10.16997/jdd.319
Abstract: Popular votes and mini-publics are both increasingly implemented as elected officials seek to build legitimacy for decisions, although these democratic innovations suffer from their own democratic deficits. Popular votes often do not live up to… read more here.
Keywords: mini publics; building better; mass; decision making ... See more keywords
Deepening and Connecting Democratic Processes. The Opportunities and Pitfalls of Mini-Publics in Renewing Democracy
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DOI: 10.3390/socsci7110236
Abstract: In recent decades, so-called “mini-publics” have been organized in many countries to renew policy making and democracy. One characteristic of mini-publics is that the selection of the participants is based on random sampling or sortition.… read more here.
Keywords: connecting democratic; democratic processes; deepening connecting; mini publics ... See more keywords