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Tuesday 14:00 - 15:45 CEST (23/08/2022)
What do citizens expect from democratic governance? Do they have clear and separable preferences on how political decisions should be made and which role different actors should play? And are these preferences ultimately useful for designing more inclusive and legitimate decision-making processes? In recent years, these and similar questions on democratic process preferences have moved to the forefront of democracy research. At the same time, the world's nations are increasingly facing severe problems such as climate change and Covid19 that pose significant challenges to democratic governance. As a consequence, citizens are questioning not only the legitimacy of political decisions, but also traditional (representative) decision-making processes. In this regard, recent scholarly work has pointed to the potential of alternative or complementary democratic innovations and technocratic alternatives to address these challenges. This panel contributes to the ongoing debates about separability and compatibility of citizens’ process preferences. It includes papers on preferences for democratic innovations such as minipublics and participatory processes more generally but also papers juxtaposing various process alternatives and their designs. The papers engage with citizens’ preferences for democratic decision-making, their causes, and their consequences and make important contributions to the theoretical debate about including alternative procedures in representative decision-making.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| What young people want from democracy: A conjoint experiment on democratic designs with 15-year old pupils | View Paper Details |
| Consolidating participatory, transparent policy-making in the environmental and climate field | View Paper Details |
| Public Opinion towards Citizen Participation in Policy-making | View Paper Details |
| Decision Acceptance in Times of Participatory Political Decision-Making | View Paper Details |
| Minipublics as a remedy for political dissatisfaction? Examining whether and how minipublics affect the perceived legitimacy of political actors, processes and outcomes | View Paper Details |