The Impacts of Democratic Innovations

VINCENT JACQUET is a F.R.S.-FNRS Research Associate Professor at the University of Namur. His main research interests are participatory governance, transformations of democracy, and local politics. MATT RYAN is Associate Professor in Governance and Public Policy at the University of Southampton. He is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Turing Fellow, and a Director of the Web Science Institute and the Centre for Democratic Futures. He leads the Rebooting Democracy project. RAMON VAN DER DOES is a PhD candidate at Université catholique de Louvain. His main research interests are deliberative democratic theory, democratic innovation, and green political thought and action. His work has appeared in journals such as Public Administration, Political Science Research and Methods, and Political Studies.

Introduction: Democratic Innovations and the Policy-Making Process
Vincent Jacquet, F.R.S.-FNRS, University of Namur
Matt Ryan, University of Southampton
Ramon van der Does, F.R.S.-FNRS, UCLouvain

Chapter One: Democratic Innovations and the Study of Politics
Matt Ryan, University of Southampton
Chapter Two: Rethinking Deliberative Impact Through Meaning-Making
John Parkinson, Maastricht University
Chapter Three: Why Are Powerless Democratic Innovations Still Successful? A Political Sociology of the ‘Participatory State’ in France
Alice Mazeaud, La Rochelle University
Guillaume Gourgues, University of Lyon 2
Chapter Four: Detecting the manipulation of consultative democratic innovations.
Julien Vrydagh, University of Stuttgart
Chapter Five: The Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review: Long-Term Impacts in the Context of Direct Democracy
John Gastil, Pennsylvania State University
Katherine R. Knobloch, Colorado State University
Chapter Six: In the Eyes of Beholders: Rethinking the Impact of Deliberative Mini-Publics
Lucy J. Parry, University of Canberra, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Selen A. Ercan, University of Canberra, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Chapter Seven: The Impact of Climate Assemblies on Formal and Informal Public Spheres: the Case of Climate Assembly UK
Jayne Carrick, Newcastle University
Stephen Elstub, Newcastle University
Chapter Eight: Deliberate then what? Design, Dynamics and Outcomes of Mini-Publics and the Deliberative System
Simon Niemeyer, University of Canberra, Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Andrea Felicetti, University of Padua, Department of Political Science, Law and International Studies
Chapter Nine: Democratic Innovations and the Environment: Impacts of Public and Citizen Participation in Environmental Decision-Making
Nicolas W. Jager, Wageningen University
Chapter Ten: The Political and Economic Effects of Brazilian Participatory Budgeting: Intensification or Degradation over Time?
Paolo Spada, University of Southampton
Chapter Eleven: The Sin of Omission? The Public Justification of Cherry-Picking
José Luis Fernández-Martínez, Instituto de Políticas y Bienes Públicos
Joan Font, Instituto de Estudios Sociales Avanzados-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
Graham Smith, University of Westminster
Chapter Twelve: The Impact of Democratic Innovations in Latin America
Thamy Pogrebinschi, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Fátima Ávila Acosta, Humboldt University
Chapter Thirteen: Conclusion. Democratic Innovations and Impact: Reflections and an Agenda for the Future
Brigitte Geissel, Goethe University Frankfurt
Ank Michels, Utrecht University

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