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Designing deliberative democracy : the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly /
Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to as...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Theories of institutional design.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key propositions of democratic theory and practice. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 237 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-231) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511388897 0511388896 9780511385087 0511385080 0511387903 9780511387906 9780511491177 0511491174 9780521712071 0521712076 9780511383236 0511383231 |