What does it mean to design democratic innovation from a deliberative systems
perspective? The demand of the deliberative systems approach that we turn from the single …

This collection provides comprehensive evidence of just how far the study of democratic
innovations has matured, theoretically and methodologically. It is hard to date when this field …

Democratic innovations comprise a 'family'(see Chapter 1 in this Handbook) of processes
and institutions that seek to increase democratic legitimacy and improve the effectiveness of …

The study of democratic innovations has long been situated in the deliberative paradigm.
Today, however, a new scholarly generation conceptualizes democratic innovations from …

'Deliberative democracy'is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments.
This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of …

This article suggests that a common feature among democratic innovations is the lack of an
agenda setting function. First, it argues that a lack of control over their own agendas opens …

This article argues that it is important to analyse different democratic innovations in terms of
their functions in democratic systems. For example, while citizens' initiatives have a role in …

This article investigates democratic innovations of a plebiscitary and action-oriented type
that diverge from a predominantly transformative and reflective definition of democratic …

Democratic innovation has become a buzzword. Despite the rapid increase in popularity of
the term, amongst academics and practitioners, there is limited agreement about what …

'Deliberative democracy'is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments.
This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of …