PDD Webinar Series

The PDD webinars series showcases the excellent work of our members on participatory and deliberative democracy. The series will run from late June to early September. Everyone is invited to discuss research on the question of how democracy can be reformed and transformed.

Webinar schedule & Recordings

Webinar 1: Quo Vadis, Radical Democracy?

Tuesday 30^th June, 1pm GMT

Deliberative Anarchism, William Smith
Green Radical Democracy: Dynamics of collective identification in climate politics, Amanda Machin
Lessons from the radical democracy kaleidoscope: social movements through Marxist and a deliberative democratic lenses, Markus Holdo and Andrea Felicetti

Webinar 2: Democracy and Institutional Reform

Monday 6th July, 3pm GMT

Katie Hirono, Using Participatory Processes to Inform Decision-making for Health Equity: A Comparison of Citizen Juries and Health Impact Assessment
Shana Almeida, The Promise of Participation: Consultation as a Challenge to Racism and the Limits of Democracy
Doreen Grove, The Scottish Government Participation Framework

Webinar 3: Exploring the Communicative Boundaries of Participatory and Deliberative Democracy

Monday 20th July, 10 am GMT

Stephen Coleman, Television Election debates as deliberative spectacles
Marc Pinol Rovira, Why Digital Participatory Politics in Cambodia Are Under Threat And What This Means For Democracy
James Wong, Self-censorship and deliberative democracy

Webinar 4: Participatory Governance: How Participatory Systems Interact with Representative Institutions

Thursday 30th July, 3 pm GMT

Katharina Huseljić, Marco Wähner: All Politics is Local: Mobilization, Participation and Context Effects
Christoph Deppe, Dannica Fleuß: A Framework for Measuring Transmissions
Discussant: Oliver Escobar

Webinar 5: Democracy and Space: From Participatory Sites to Translocal Spatialities

Wednesday 2^nd September, 3pm GMT

A Spatial Theory of Democracy, Hans Asenbaum
The Translocalization of Democracy: How Practices of Organizing Deliberative Mini-publics Circulate Around the Globe, Jan Peter Voß, Jannik Schritt
Beyond the Typical Places, Marta Wojciechowska