Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly by Hilary Pearse, Mark E. Warren

Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly



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Designing Deliberative Democracy: The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly Hilary Pearse, Mark E. Warren
Language: English
Page: 253
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521885078, 9780521885072
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Is it possible to advance democracy by empowering ordinary citizens to make key decisions about the design of political institutions and policies? In 2004, the government of British Columbia embarked on a bold democratic experiment: it created an assembly of 160 near-randomly selected citizens to assess and redesign the province's electoral system. The British Columbia Citizens' Assembly represents the first time a citizen body has had the power to reform fundamental political institutions. It was an innovative gamble that has been replicated elsewhere in Canada and in the Netherlands, and is gaining increasing attention in Europe as a democratic alternative for constitution-making and constitutional reform. In the USA, advocates view citizens' assemblies as a means for reforming referendum processes. This book investigates the citizens' assembly in British Columbia to test and refine key propositions of democratic theory and practice.

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