Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics Export

@article{citeulike:2663806, abstract = {Democratic theorists often place deliberative innovations such as citizen's panels, consensus conferences, planning cells, and deliberative polls at the center of their hopes for deliberative democratization. In light of experience to date, the authors chart the ways in which such mini-publics may have an impact in the "macro" world of politics. Impact may come in the form of actually making policy, being taken up in the policy process, informing public debates, market-testing of proposals, legitimation of public policies, building confidence and constituencies for policies, popular oversight, and resisting co-option. Exposing problems and failures is all too easy. The authors highlight cases of success on each of these dimensions. 10.1177/0032329206288152}, author = {Goodin, Robert E. and Dryzek, John S.}, citeulike-article-id = {2663806}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329206288152}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://pas.sagepub.com/content/34/2/219.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://pas.sagepub.com/content/34/2/219.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://pas.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/34/2/219}, day = {1}, doi = {10.1177/0032329206288152}, journal = {Politics Society}, keywords = {deliberation, deliberative\_democracy, engagement, participation, politics, public, stakeholders}, month = {June}, number = {2}, pages = {219--244}, posted-at = {2009-11-13 04:54:05}, priority = {0}, title = {Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329206288152}, volume = {34}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:2663806 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2663806 N2 - Democratic theorists often place deliberative innovations such as citizen's panels, consensus conferences, planning cells, and deliberative polls at the center of their hopes for deliberative democratization. In light of experience to date, the authors chart the ways in which such mini-publics may have an impact in the "macro" world of politics. Impact may come in the form of actually making policy, being taken up in the policy process, informing public debates, market-testing of proposals, legitimation of public policies, building confidence and constituencies for policies, popular oversight, and resisting co-option. Exposing problems and failures is all too easy. The authors highlight cases of success on each of these dimensions. 10.1177/0032329206288152 IS - 2 JF - Politics Society EP - 244 TI - Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics VL - 34 SP - 219 KW - deliberation KW - deliberative_democracy KW - engagement KW - participation KW - politics KW - public KW - stakeholders AU - Goodin, Robert AU - Dryzek, John PY - 2006/06/01/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0032329206288152 ER -