AGM: Rod Dacombe and Hans Asenbaum elected PDD co-convenors

3 Apr 20184 Apr 2018

At the Annual General Meeting 2018 of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group in Cardiff Rod Dr Rod Dacombe and Hans Asenbaum were unanimously elected PDD co-convenors. Rod and…

Call for papers for PSA 2016 in Brighton

15 Jul 201515 Jul 2015

The call for papers for the 2016 PSA Conference (21-23 March 2013, Hilton Metropole Brighton) has just been released, so it’s time for Group members to start thinking about panel ideas - and we  particularly…

Upcoming call: Deliberative systems and comparative democratisation in conversation at ECPR Joint Sessions 2016

28 Apr 201528 Apr 2015

We are delighted to be able to announce that we and our friends in the Democratic Innovations group of the ECPR have had a workshop proposal accepted for the ECPR Joint…

PSA2015 – highlights and next moves

10 Apr 2015

It’s a week afterwards – the joys of being wifi-less in the Cumbrian mountains! – but on behalf of the PDD group convenors I wanted to say a huge thank…

Call for papers: Participatory democracy, civic engagement and citizenship education

9 Apr 2015

Arizona State University is hosting a conference that could be of interest to PDD members this coming December. Called "By the People: Participatory democracy, civic engagement and citizenship education", it will…

Gastil, Dryzek feature in revised PSA 2015 programme

9 Mar 20159 Mar 2015

As our blog readers and twitter followers will have known, we have been working over the last week to sort out some clashes in the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist…

PSA 2015 – PDD Group panels under revision

3 Mar 20153 Mar 2015

The PSA conference programme has been released on the association website, and the PDD Group has four panels, one of which is a joint effort with the Public Administration Group. However,…

Call for deliberative papers at the Australian PSA 2015 – deadline soon!

1 Mar 2015

The Australian Political Studies Association Conference happens at the University of Canberra (UC) this September, and it will feature three deliberative democracy panels led by members of UC's Centre for Deliberative Democracy…

Call for papers: “Democracy and Participation in Latin America”, Sussex, 19-21 March 2015

12 Nov 2014

A new conference has just been announced looking at "Democracy and Participation in Latin America”. Hosted by the Sussex Latin America project, it will be part of three days' worth…

Panel ideas please! Call for papers for PSA2015 released

11 Aug 201412 Aug 2014

The call for papers for the Political Studies Association 2015 conference in Sheffield has just been released, so it's time for Group members to start thinking about panel ideas. As…