Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue

Curato, Nicole; Vrydagh, Julien; Bächtiger, André

doi:10.16997/jdd.413

Cited by 9 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 38 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…This mode of thinking explains to a certain degree the fact that deliberative democracy, through the collective intelligence and decision-making of mini-publics [42], has been able to deliver better policies to some of the most-pressing problems of this century which require value judgements, trade-offs and long-term vision [26]. The development and adoption of the Network City plan for Perth which fifteen years later remains the main planning document for the metropolis is a prime example.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…The challenges of 2020 saw further expansion of deliberative democracy to tackle issues, such as a post-COVID-19 world-deliberations conducted in Oregon via Zoom, and France's cutting of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 [42]. In each example, the deliberative democracy initiative has been aimed at resolving a complex or wicked problem.…”

Section: Application Of Deliberative Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Using Deliberative Democracy for Better Urban Decision-Making through Integrative Thinking

Hartz-Karp

2020

Urban Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This article expands the evidence about integrative thinking by analyzing two case studies that applied the collaborative decision-making method of deliberative democracy which encourages representative, deliberative and influential public participation. The four-year case studies took place in Western Australia, (1) in the capital city Perth and surrounds, and (2) in the city-region of Greater Geraldton. Both aimed at resolving complex and wicked urban sustainability challenges as they arose. The analysis suggests that a new way of thinking, namely integrative thinking, emerged during the deliberations to produce operative outcomes for decision-makers. Building on theory and research demonstrating that deliberative designs lead to improved reasoning about complex issues, the two case studies show that through discourse based on deliberative norms, participants developed different mindsets, remaining open-minded, intuitive and representative of ordinary people’s basic common sense. This spontaneous appearance of integrative thinking enabled sound decision-making about complex and wicked sustainability-related urban issues. In both case studies, the participants exhibited all characteristics of integrative thinking to produce outcomes for decision-makers: salience—grasping the problems’ multiple aspects; causality—identifying multiple sources of impacts; sequencing—keeping the whole in view while focusing on specific aspects; and resolution—discovering novel ways that avoided bad choice trade-offs.

show abstract

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

Section: Application Of Deliberative Democracymentioning

confidence: 99%

Using Deliberative Democracy for Better Urban Decision-Making through Integrative Thinking

Hartz-Karp

2020

Urban Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Distrust and reflexive impotence in the net zero transition: findings from a longitudinal deliberative mini-public

Ainscough,

Lewis,

Farrow

2024

Climatic Change

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Responding to climate change requires that people engage in different forms of climate citizenship. These span from individual consumption choices, to taking part in forms of collective action to steer the behaviour of governments and in the private sector. Here we analyse data from the Net Zero Diaries project to explore how attitudes to different forms of climate citizenship develop as people become more aware about the scale of societal change required to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Net Zero Diaries project was a deliberative mini-public, composed of 41 citizens broadly representative of the UK adult population, which convened over five months between 2021 and 2022 to debate the UK policies for reaching net zero emissions by 2050. We show that people identify government as the prime actor needed to drive the transition, but doubt that they will act due to a range of constraints vis-à-vis the public and private sector. This tension provides a novel explanation for why some people prioritise forms of individual and consumption focused climate citizenship, whilst also doubting the efficacy of such actions. We conclude by suggesting that efforts to drive more engaged forms of climate citizenship need to attend to underlying feelings about state efficacy, rather than focus on just how the issue of climate change is framed.

show abstract

More than a ‘voice’: Indigenous transmission in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Davis

2022

Journal of Environmental Planning and Management

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Democracy without Shortcuts: Introduction to the Special Issue

Cited by 9 publications

References 38 publications

Using Deliberative Democracy for Better Urban Decision-Making through Integrative Thinking

Using Deliberative Democracy for Better Urban Decision-Making through Integrative Thinking

Distrust and reflexive impotence in the net zero transition: findings from a longitudinal deliberative mini-public

More than a ‘voice’: Indigenous transmission in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About