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OECD Public Governance Policy Papers, No. 12, 14 December 2021
Opinion | Citizen juries a way to avoid fruitless debate
This guide for public officials and policy makers outlines eight models for institutionalising representative public deliberation to improve collective decision making and strengthen democracy.
Increasingly, public authorities are reinforcing democracy by making use of deliberative processes in a structural way, beyond one-off initiatives that are often dependent on political will. The guide provides examples of how to create structures that allow representative public deliberation to become an integral part of how certain types of public decisions are taken. .
Eight models to consider for implementation:
1. Combining a permanent citizens’ assembly with one-off citizens’ panels
2. Connecting representative public deliberation to parliamentary committees
3. Combining deliberative and direct democracy
4. Standing citizens’ advisory panels
5. Sequenced representative deliberative processes throughout the policy cycle
6. Giving people the right to demand a representative deliberative process
7. Requiring representative public deliberation before certain types of public decisions
8. Embedding representative deliberative processes in local strategic planning
NEW WAVE OF DDD IN EUROPE ... On February 25, 2019, in Ostbelgien (the German-speaking community of Belgium), parliament voted to establish a Citizens’ Council, a new democratic institution developed to complement the elected parliamentary chamber.1 The first of its kind to be embedded in legislation, the permanent council launched on September 16. It is the latest development in a new wave of contemporary deliberative democracy, based on the premise that political decisions should be the result of reasonable discussion among citizens.
The council’s inaugural twenty-four members will rotate out over an eighteen-month period; every six months, eight members will be replaced by a new group.
- 2 New members will be randomly invited through a civic lottery.
- The council has two mandated roles.
- First, it is tasked with selecting up to three issues to assign to citizens’ assemblies.
- Each assembly will have up to fifty randomly selected citizens and
- Meet a minimum of three times over three months to deliberate and develop recommendations for parliament.
- Parliament is then required by law to debate the recommendations at least twice, after which it, the government, the relevant commission, and the responsible minister must reply.
- The council’s second role is to monitor the parliamentary debates and the progress made in implementing any agreed-upon actions.
Within a few years, every resident of Ostbelgien—a community of around 80,000 people—will have received an invitation to participate in either the Citizens’ Council or a Citizens’ Assembly. This effort, and similar endeavors around the world, could be the start of a period of transformation that changes the architecture of representative democracy. But fully grasping the effects will only be possible through consistent and constant examination of the processes and outcomes. ... CLICK HERE TO GO TO SOURCE
Support for direct and deliberative models of democracy in the UK: understanding the difference ... Sergiu Gherghina ... The models of direct and deliberative democracy are broadly considered the major alternatives to representative democracy. So far, the two models have been merged under the broad umbrella of participatory democracy and thus little is known about why citizens support direct democracy and/or deliberation. They are distinct procedures, driven by different logics and outcomes and this makes it likely that the preference for them rest on different premises. This article fills this gap in the literature and distinguishes between the models proposing two central arguments. First, we expect that several general determinants have a positive impact on the support for both direct democracy and deliberation because they are different from representative democracy. Second, we test the effect of specific determinants that drive people towards supporting more one of the two alternative models of democracy. We use individual level data from an original survey conducted in December 2018 on a representative sample of 1094 respondents in the UK. The results indicate that the supporters of direct democracy differ from those of deliberative democracy in several ways. ...CLICK HERE TO LINK TO SOURCE
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If the current Local Govt Act 1993 isn’t broken yet it is however well and truly past its USEbyDATE 
Given current technologies that by now are:
- Well proven and truly functional; Very accessible; and generally
- Well understood in the wider community.
- They're increasingly ubiquitous and not the property of bureaucracies to fiddle with and 'keep away' from the citizenry.
THE STATUS QUO IS UNSUSTAINABLE
Participatory democracy or Participant democracy
noun
individual participation by citizens in political decisions and policies that affect their lives, especially directly rather than through elected representatives. SEE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Participatory_democracy
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Open Participatory Democracy in the Basque Country: The Role of Open Digital Platforms in Public Budgeting and Finance
Conference paper ... First Online: 06 June 2018 980Downloads https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-92052-8_41
Abstract
The processes of formulation, implementation and political deliberation for the correct operationalization of public administrations has transformed into a complex endeavour at a time where the idea of representative democracy is going through important changes and future challenges. The idea of public administration and governance has become increasingly decentralized and overloaded with new interactive processes which involve a greater number of political and social actors. This has given rise to new collaborative, interactive, and participatory governance strategies to create new public and social value. Moreover, this has opened the gate for the emergence of new digital platforms of participatory democracy, clearing the path for public and digital social innovation. This paper is focused on an open participatory initiative developed by the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country, to develop a digital platform Public Budgeting for the year 2018. This strategy was developed along 2017 to redefine public budgeting through agile platforms of citizen participation.
Ongoing accountability in real time involving the COMMUNITY OF INTEREST AND OWNERSHIP – http://auditingplacedness.blogspot.com/
What is a Citizens’ Jury?
A Citizens’ Jury is an innovative means of involving everyday people in the process of government decision-making. These projects are genuinely pioneering and each one expands the critical mass of knowledge and understanding around how citizens can best influence the decisions their governments make.
Nuclear waste storage plan prompts more citizens' jury debate in South Australia
Updated 8 Oct 2016, 12:48pm
PHOTO: Mark Parnell of the Greens is worried Finland could be cited as a nuclear model for SA. (ABC News)
Greens leader Mark Parnell is worried members of the South Australian Government's citizens' jury are not getting all the facts as they consider whether the state should pursue a nuclear future.
The Government is considering a royal commission's recommendation that SA store high-to........
Problems and Purpose
A Citizens’ Jury is a form of deliberative mini-public where a small group of citizens are randomly selected to deliberate on a given policy issue and provide recommendations to the organizing entity. The jury are usually given a specific question to answer or a clearly defined scope, and provide a report at the end of the process detailing their recommendations. The purpose of a Citizens’ Jury is to bring deliberation and public participation into public policy decisions. A CJ is a small enough group to help ensure genuine and effective deliberation can take place,[and utilises a random or stratified sample of the community to try and ensure that the group is sufficiently diverse and representative of the broader affected public. Proponents of the CJ model suggest that decisions made by a representative group of citizens are more likely to be accepted and viewed as legitimate by the broader public, because the jury making the recommendation are everyday citizens as well
LINKS
- https://www.vichealth.vic.gov.au/media-and-resources/citizens-jury-process
- https://law.anu.edu.au/news-and-events/news/review-supports-act-citizens%E2%80%99-juries-changes
- https://www.isca.org.au/News-and-Media/Insights/Are-citizen-juries-the-answer-to-successful-decisi
- https://www.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/vision/planning-for-2050/sydney-2050-citizens-jury
Opinion | Citizen juries a way to avoid fruitless debate
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