Conferences Political Studies Association Conference 2024 in Glasgow 10 Apr 202410 Apr 2024 Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group Panels By Will Smith The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy specialist group hosted eight well-attended panels at PSA 2024. The discussions were of a uniformly…
AGORA BLOG Consulting the Broader Public Before Deliberation: Climate Assembly Tsukuba 2023 4 Dec 2023 by Masakazu Ogami, Keisuke Matsuhashi, and Taro Tokuda Climate Assembly Tsukuba 2023 (CAT), or citizens’ assembly on climate change, started on September 3, 2023, in Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.…
Conferences Call for papers: PDD section at the PSA Conference 2024 9 Aug 20235 Sep 2023 The Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group will host a section of panels at next year’s PSA 2024 Annual Conference with the theme, “AFTER (NEO-) LIBERALISM: TOWARDS AN ALTERNATIVE PARADIGM?”…
Uncategorized Bridging the gap between democracy and design 21 Jul 2023 by Mathias Poulsen As both a researcher and a practitioner, my work typically takes the form of gatherings, of bringing bodies, human and non-human, together for playful and open-ended inquiries…
Uncategorized Everything’s a Rule: In Legislative Theatre, Every Citizen Is a Policy Analyst 11 Jul 2023 by Katy Rubin Feature image credit: Theatre of the Oppressed NYC How do we, as citizens, begin to participate in designing and changing policy, before we are able to articulate…
Uncategorized Why must we talk about ‘Democracy beyond the West’ solely through the dominant Western language? 11 Jul 202311 Jul 2023 by Tetsuki Tamura This essay examines a challenge faced when considering ‘Democracy beyond the West’; the dilemma of using English, the predominant Western language, for our deliberations and publications. The…
Uncategorized Starting from scratch: Decolonising the normative foundation of democratic innovations 14 Jun 202311 Jul 2023 Abena Dadze-Arthur A slippery foundation Undeniably, decolonisation is a slippery concept already! Decolonising democratic innovations (DI) is even more slippery because of its inherently normative foundation. Here, Temidayo Eseonu’s argument…
AGORA BLOG (Re)Introducing social accountability 4 Dec 2023 by Adriana Algarin C Accountability, or the lack of it, has been a constant in democratic settings. Somehow, it seems to be aggravated by new forms of governance that displace…
Uncategorized Learning from Participation and Deliberation in the Global South 2 Apr 20232 Apr 2023 Melisa Ross & Azucena Morán We appear to live in an era of global democratic decline (V-Dem, 2022, 2023). Deliberative democracy has gained new momentum as a remedy to multiple…
Uncategorized PDD programme @ PSA 2023 31 Mar 202331 Mar 2023 This is the programme of the PDD section of the PSA Annual Conference 2023, which will take place 3-5 April in Liverpool. Find the full conference programme HERE.