The End of Representative Politics, Revisited

Tormey, Simon; Gagnon, Jean–Paul

doi:10.3167/dt.2017.040206

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“…The crisis of representative democracy in the last three decades [26,28] has been identified with the crisis of democracy itself [9,19]. Some authors have criticized the technocratic tendencies operating in this period as signs of the rise of postdemocracy [8] or post-politics [25,31], while others, more precisely, have used the term "post-representation", to refer to the emptying out (of power and meaning) of representative institutions by dynamics ranging from globalization to growing citizen mistrust [6,19].…”

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confidence: 99%

Deliberative Platform Design: The Case Study of the Online Discussions in Decidim Barcelona

Aragón

Kaltenbrunner²,

Calleja-López

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. With the irruption of ICTs and the crisis of political representation, many online platforms have been developed with the aim of improving participatory democratic processes. However, regarding platforms for online petitioning, previous research has not found examples of how to effectively introduce discussions, a crucial feature to promote deliberation. In this study we focus on the case of Decidim Barcelona, the online participatory-democracy platform launched by the City Council of Barcelona in which proposals can be discussed with an interface that combines threaded discussions and comment alignment with the proposal. This innovative approach allows to examine whether neutral, positive or negative comments are more likely to generate discussion cascades. The results reveal that, with this interface, comments marked as negatively aligned with the proposal were more likely to engage users in online discussions and, therefore, helped to promote deliberative decision making.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Deliberative Platform Design: The Case Study of the Online Discussions in Decidim Barcelona

Aragón

Kaltenbrunner²,

Calleja-López

et al. 2017

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…As young people are increasingly abstaining from traditional forms of politics (e.g., electoral participation), a gradual transformation of political participation modes appears to be taking place [35] and authors distinguish between conventional/formal/traditional forms of political participation and non-conventional/informal/alternative forms, as well as between latent and manifest forms of political participation (e.g., [15,36]). Rather than indicating a steady withdrawal from political life, these new participation modes reflect a new type of critical citizen [37] who still supports basic democratic values but is skeptical of conventional systems of representation and mediation and prefers participation in more horizontal and autonomous ways [38,39].…”

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“…The purpose is to gain a deeper, more nuanced and valid understanding of young people's political engagement than currently exists-one which fully articulates the breadth and different dimensions of their political engagement in the context of their current disillusionment with democratic politics [14,39,58].…”

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Towards a Conceptualization of Young People’s Political Engagement: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

2018

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Disenchantment with politics and low electoral turnout does not mean young people are not engaged with politics. However, our understanding of what being 'politically engaged' entails is somewhat challenged by the lack of consensus concerning the definition of this particular concept. Furthermore, existing conceptualizations of political engagement and participation (offline and online) often center on a limited set of political action items, failing to realize that a person can be politically engaged but not participate in political actions. Despite attempts to understand how young people themselves define politics, there are insufficient youth specific explanations of what being politically engaged means. In the present study, focus groups including young people (18-24 years) were conducted to examine understandings of political engagement. Participants were also asked to group a set of items they considered most accurately assessed this construct. Using the results, a conceptualization is proposed taking into account young people's definitions of political engagement; this suggests that young people consider political engagement to have emotional and cognitive dimensions but also to be conceptually distinct from political participation.

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“…76 It is, however, not strongly inspired by ideological thinking associated with new social or political movements. 77 Participants get their energy not so much from social theory, but rather from social practicefrom the other pioneers involved, the joint actions and the emerging results. 78 Do-it-ourselves democracy is different from the face-to-face assembly democracy that a.o.…”

Section: Reviving Do-it-ourselves Democracy: Residents' Cooperation Bmentioning

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Democratic innovation beyond deliberative reflection: the plebiscitary rebound and the advent of action-oriented democracy

Hendriks

2018

Democratization

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This article investigates democratic innovations of a plebiscitary and action-oriented type that diverge from a predominantly transformative and reflective definition of democratic innovation. Conceptually, the article offers a balanced, extended framework that serves to recognize and understand a range of democratic innovations that includes non-deliberative besides deliberative models and methods. Empirically, the article offers a closer look at three exemplary cases focusing on the rebound of aggregative democracy through the (quasi-)referendum, the advent of collaborative democratic governance through concerted action, and of do-it-ourselves democracy through pragmatic activism. Ultimately, the article calls for a practice and theory of democratic innovation aware of and sensitive to the reality of democratic hybridization.

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The End of Representative Politics, Revisited

Cited by 22 publications

References 21 publications

Deliberative Platform Design: The Case Study of the Online Discussions in Decidim Barcelona

Deliberative Platform Design: The Case Study of the Online Discussions in Decidim Barcelona

Towards a Conceptualization of Young People’s Political Engagement: A Qualitative Focus Group Study

Democratic innovation beyond deliberative reflection: the plebiscitary rebound and the advent of action-oriented democracy

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