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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Warren, Mark (Mark E.), Pearse, Hilary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Colección:Theories of institutional design.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Who should govern who governs? The role of citizens in reforming the electoral system / Dennis F. Thompson
  • Citizen representatives / Mark E. Warren
  • Institutional design and citizen deliberation / Hilary Pearse
  • Agenda-setting in deliberative forums: expert influence and citizen autonomy in the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly / Amy Lang
  • Descriptive representation in the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly / Michael Rabinder James
  • Do citizens' assemblies make reasoned choices? / André Blais, R. Kenneth Carty, Patrick Fournier
  • Communicative rationality in the citizens' assembly and referendum processes / R.S. Ratner
  • Deliberation, information, and trust: the British Columbia Citizens' Assembly as agenda setter / Fred Cutler [and others].