1st Edition

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

By Didier Caluwaerts, Min Reuchamps Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

174 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

For deliberative democrats, the strength of any democracy is public deliberation, the frequent and reasoned discussion between citizens on political issues. Despite all the theoretical claims made about deliberative systems, the question remains how to empirically assess both the legitimacy and function of deliberative systems in the real world and how individual sites of deliberation... Read more

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

Biography

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.