Journal of Deliberative Democracy

🗄From the archives, but highly relevant for anyone in policy-making or community engagement:

Check out Florian Roth & co's paper, which presents a risk-based perspective on Participatory Policy-making (PPM), drawing on projects in 4️⃣ European countries

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How do communities navigate intensely painful public controversies? 🤔

Check out Philip Dalton's case study on how Elgin, Illinois resolved a public art controversy by analysing the "ilauditory acts of listening" between city officials & Black leaders 👇

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🆕 Digest piece!

Anna Slaviero examines the Norwegian Education Act’s systemic exclusion of Sámi knowledge from its deliberative process, & suggests steps towards #epistemicjustice in #deliberativedemocracy.

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Available in Norwegian & English 🇳🇴

Democratic innovations aim to deepen citizen engagement & improve governance, but their institutionalisation & integration into local contexts may be challenging.

📌 ICYMI: Bokyong S.’s research on participatory budgeting in South Korea 🇰🇷 engages with this theme

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What is the role of #politicalideology in the adoption of deliberative #minipublics in Europe❓

ICYMI: Rodrigo Ramis Moyano, Graham Smith, Ernesto Ganuza and Thamy Pogrebinschi provide the first systematic analysis on this question 👇

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New article alert! 📌

When mini-publics are #scaled to regional or transnational levels, how do institutional #designs affect self-exclusion?

Aliénor Ballangé investigated the European Citizens’ Panels to answer this question 🧐

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What does #democraticgovernance look like in the context of emergencies? 🚨

Re-sharing Mikko Värttö's research on deliberative mini-publics organised globally in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic, looking at #democraticinnovations in emergencies👇

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How can #policy discussions & #adaptation strategies centre #women’s voices & needs? Should they?

📍ICYMI: Check out our Dispatch from Sub-Saharan Africa
highlighting #women as important actors in the fight against #climatechange

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ICYMI 🚨

Marit Hammond on how #deliberativedemocracy can be understood as 'a political culture marked by a citizen-initiated consciousness and motivation toward unending democratic social critique' ✊

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Can deliberative mini-publics reduce confirmation bias? 🤔

In JDD’s newest article, Kaisa Herne, Kimmo Grönlund, and Peter Soderlund studied a local-level mini-public on the topic of transportation policies to answer this question. 🇫🇮

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📸 Sharing some snapshots from the JDD’s participation at the ECPR #DemocraticInnovations Standing Group Reception!

Check out the key points from our editor @sbussu.bsky.social's speech at the event 👇

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Newest JDD article available now! ⬇️

Young Jee Kim analysed transcripts of online deliberations to examine whether #socialstatus translates into #deliberativeadvantage regarding how individuals deliberate and how opinions form. 💬

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Newest Digest out now! 🚨

Melisa Ross, Kalypso Nicolaidis & Camille Dobler reflect on three #innovations introduced in the Democratic Odyssey’s process design:

1️⃣ iterative composition
2️⃣ open consultation on the remit
3️⃣ centring lived experience

🔗 www.publicdeliberation.net/the-democrat...

citizen deliberation🤝climate research decision-making

DISPATCH from 🇳🇱

Remco Van der Stoep & co share insights from the project Climate Research in Dialogue, which aimed to bring Dutch residents into the conversation about #climateresearch priorities

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What patterns of #democraticinnovations can be observed among #digitaldemocracy innovations in #LatinAmerica during COVID-19 ?

🚩ICYMI: Valesca Lima takes us through 🇧🇷🇦🇷🇪🇨
➡️ citizen engagement
➡️ democratic resilience
➡️ e-participation

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What's the relationship between care & other #democratic practices such as #deliberation or protests?

📌 ICYMI: Building on feminist care ethics, Markus Holdo considers questions of constructing more radically different spaces as questions of #care

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What are the opportunities & challenges of introducing #Participatory Policy-making instruments at the local level?

NEW ARTICLE: Florian Roth & co investigates
✅ stakeholder workshops
✅ Delphi surveys
✅ focus groups
✅ citizen panels

in 🇧🇬🇬🇷🇪🇸🇨🇭 from 2021-2023

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Mid-year appreciation post ❤️‍🔥

We're grateful to our amazing authors, brilliant editors, generous supporters, & supportive intellectual homes. 🙌

Without them, the JDD & Digest's commitment to fee-free, open access, high quality, & global publishing would not be possible.

While political ideology influenced the adoption of #ParticipatoryBudgeting in Europe, this new study shows no clear ideological pattern in the early adoption of #deliberative #minipublics 👇

🔖 LATEST from the Digest: publicdeliberation.net/does-party-i...

Available in:
➡️ Spanish
➡️ English

NEW PAPER ALERT 💫

Using #participatorycriticalrhetoric, Philip Dalton explores how attentive #listening between government officials and Black leaders in Elgin, Illinois, shaped their response to a controversy over a public mural of a lynch mob.

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Our Digest editor & JDD co-editor Lucy Parry is in the house! 🎉

Captured here working hard on submissions, w/ editor @hansasenbaum.bsky.social & ed. assistant @olivemendoza.bsky.social at the @deldemucan.bsky.social 🇦🇺

We missed you @franziskamaier.bsky.social, Hannah Werner, @sbussu.bsky.social!

LATEST RELEASE 🔔

Using 🇰🇷 as a case study, Bokyong Shin from the University of Helsinki highlights the critical role of #mediaframing in introducing and promoting #participatorybudgeting to the public 📰 🗞️

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How was the 'deliberative wave' influenced by the ideology of its commissioners?

In our latest article, #GrahamSmith, @eganuza.bsky.social, #ThamyPogrebinschi and I examine the patterns of adoption of deliberative mini-publics in Europe between 1979 and 2021.

Full text available 👇🏻

New article alert‼️

Mikko Värttö analyzed #deliberative #minipublics organized globally in connection to the COVID-19 pandemic, showing #publicparticipation’s adaptability and creativity in addressing crisis situations

⬇️https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/1660/

JUST PUBLISHED 🔥

Unpacking #deliberation as a practice-to-be-implemented & as a wider theory of #legitimacy, Marit Hammond argues for #deliberativedemocracy as a political culture oriented toward resisting domination ✊

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OUT NOW: DISPATCH FROM SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA 🔔

Penelope Nortey, Sharon Boateng & Robert Richards Jr discuss how women are leading #climateaction

👉🏽https://www.publicdeliberation.net/social-capital-and-resilience-how-womens-grassroots-participation-drives-climate-adaptation-in-sub-saharan-africa/

Could the 'deliberative wave' be a product of ideological orientation?

Rodrigo Ramis-Moyano & co explore the influence of party ideology on the actual commissioning of #deliberative #minipublics using OECD database in the last 4️⃣ decades

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Looking for materials to include in your upcoming holiday reading list?

Check out THEMATIC COLLECTIONS:
👉🏽 Deliberation Amid Deep Conflict
👉🏽 Youth Deliberation in Community
👉🏽 Climate Change and Deliberative Democracy

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ICYMI: Our Feb Digest featured a BIG IDEAS article 💡

Marjan Horst Ehsassi & John Gastil engage in an exploration of #citizensassemblies, inspired by Marjan's new book, "Activated Citizenship."

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OUT NOW ‼️

Our latest Dispatch from 🇳🇱 highlights the work of Athena Institute & G1000.nu in embedding #deliberative dialogue within #science, enabling #citizens to influence research agendas.

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