Tackling Wicked Problems Through Deliberative Engagement

Carcasson, Martín

doi:10.1002/ncr.21258

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“…If resources are stronger, then projects can be more ambitious. When done well, deliberative practice creates a positive feedback loop, so that each project serves a dual purpose of addressing that issue while at the same time building additional capacity for future projects (Carcasson, , ).…”

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Beyond Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing the Work of Public Deliberation as Deliberative Inquiry

Carcasson

Sprain

2015

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This article introduces deliberative inquiry (DI), a practical theory designed to guide the work of deliberative practitioners working in their local communities to better address wicked problems by improving the quality of public discourse. DI reconceptualizes the work of public deliberation as sparking and sustaining a unique form of inquiry suited to addressing wicked problems. DI moves from a linear event‐focused model where deliberation produces refined public opinion and decision outcomes to using deliberative principles to guide a cyclical learning process. DI seeks to improve community decision making by focusing on obstacles to deliberative engagement, deliberative tensions inherent to wicked problems, and resources for collaborative action. Understanding of these elements is refined throughout the 4 tasks of the deliberative cycle.

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“…Instead, our work was initially informed by the academic fields of argumentation, rhetorical criticism, postempirical public policy analysis, deliberative democracy and collaborative problem solving, and critiques of deliberation. See Carcasson, for a discussion of specific sources and their influence on CPD's deliberative practice.…”

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Beyond Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing the Work of Public Deliberation as Deliberative Inquiry

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Sprain

2015

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“…Despite being stressful and unpleasant, these tensions are known to support productive conversations, by revealing assumptions, gaps, and unaddressed issues (Bartunek and Rynes 2014). Ultimately, our workshop was flexible enough that when things became tense, we were able to recalibrate and invest necessary time and energy in the process of bridging (Carcasson 2016). Building these kinds of collaborations is challenging work, and too often, the attention and energy are directed only to the potential outcomes.…”

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Journey Through the Groan Zone with Academics and Practitioners: Bridging Conflict and Difference to Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Work

Browne

O’Connell

Yoder

2018

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Academic-practitioner divides in disaster management and research can be persistent and pernicious, bearing consequences for disaster survivors and future affected populations. The gap between disaster professionals and academic researchers is often treated as an unavoidable structural problem or a neutral accident of professional silos and circumstance. We suggest that these gaps are not neutral, and that they can and must be overcome. With hundreds of millions of people affected by disaster each year and recovery costs skyrocketing, there is urgency in connecting researcher and practitioner knowledges to avoid expensive mistakes and most importantly, to decrease human suffering. Yet the difficulties that US academic anthropologists and practitioners experienced in their efforts to collaborate became evident in a cross-sector National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded workshop on the relevance of culture in disaster work. We suggest and illustrate how more systematic cross-field communication can be operationalized through engaging in an ongoing and relational process of bridging. Such a process can offer long-term benefits to the people and institutions involved, dramatically enhance the science of disaster management, and help reduce the social and material costs of disaster impacts.Keywords Academic and practitioner divide Á Applied research Á Cross-sector communication Á Culture and disaster Á Disaster anthropology Á Disaster management

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“…UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 on sustainable cities and communities also incorporates enhancing capacity for 'participatory, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management' as a target. Public participation has instrumental value in improving democratic decision-making that supports sustainability [3,4] as well as intrinsic value [5], and is recognized as a highly worthwhile endeavour [6][7][8][9]. It should be noted, however, that some authors have qualified such assertions in the case of highly stratified societies [10], or those characterized by corruption and patronage [11].…”

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Institutional innovations in public participation for improved local governance and urban sustainability in India

Menon

Hartz-Karp

2019

Sustain Earth

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Background: Improving urban governance is an imperative for India, with its accelerated rate of urbanization, distrust of government, and inadequate public involvement in policy development and decision-making. Deliberative democracy initiatives in other parts of the world, and similar experiences in rural India have demonstrated their effectiveness at resolving complex issues with decisions that are acceptable to constituents, and are seen to be in the public good. Results: Learnings are drawn from two cases of action research in Pune, India about achieving inclusion and deliberation in public engagement efforts, and their influence on public decision-making. The stratified and complex socioeconomic and political context in India, power imbalances, inadequacy of decentralized governance structures, and information for civic decision-making makes public engagement challenging. From this experience, we inductively developed a potential framework for good governance, of deliberative democracy initiatives (induced participation), inclusive civil society (organic and invented) participation, overseen by an independent third party. It is contended that such a framework can enable city governments, in India and elsewhere, to resolve complex urban sustainability challenges with more implementable decisions. Conclusions: Based on what was learnt from the Pune case studies, this article suggests that a combination of leaders willing to pioneer good governance, capable third-party facilitators, and strong organic participation groups working together through the structured approaches of deliberative democracy can effectively integrate the public into civic decision-making. However, to implement deliberative democracy in urban areas in India, the framework proposed will require advocacy at multiple levels. It will be critical to find 'champions' within political, administrative and civil society willing to pioneer deliberative democracy initiatives, to build professional capacity to conduct high quality deliberation, and to ensure the outcomes of such processes are influential. Good governance will rely on an ecosystem supporting such democratic renewal.

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Tackling Wicked Problems Through Deliberative Engagement

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Beyond Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing the Work of Public Deliberation as Deliberative Inquiry

Beyond Problem Solving: Reconceptualizing the Work of Public Deliberation as Deliberative Inquiry

Journey Through the Groan Zone with Academics and Practitioners: Bridging Conflict and Difference to Strengthen Disaster Risk Reduction and Recovery Work

Institutional innovations in public participation for improved local governance and urban sustainability in India

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