The contemporary emphasis on public participation in policy making derives both from
concerns to increase the legitimacy of public decision making and to develop more dialogic …

Deliberative democracy did not begin as a field of political thought with minipublics at the
core of its institutional dimension. Yet, for better or worse, minipublics have become a …

Democratic institutions and the representatives of the people, can and must try to connect
Europe with its citizens. This is the starting point for more effective and relevant policies …

This chapter reviews some of the criticisms of the universal idea of a public sphere. Drawing
on recent scholarship in social movement studies, it shows how the dynamics of the" …

This paper investigates the dynamic and performative construction of publics in public
engagement exercises. In this investigation, we, on the one hand, analyse how public …

There is widespread agreement in mainstream participation studies that social capital and
civic engagement in Western democracies are in steady and continuous decline. How did it …

Participatory design (PD) research has historically strongly focused on the reporting of
design events (eg workshops and prototyping activities with participants), where issues such …

'Participation'has become a mantra and is common practice in governance. Yet only
preliminary efforts have been made to examine how participatory and deliberative designs …

The recent shift towards a deliberative systems approach suggests understanding public
deliberation as a communicative activity occurring in a diversity of spaces. While …

In recent years, various critiques of participative approaches to design processes have been
presented. Participatory urban planning has been subject to a specific form of criticism …