Difficult trade-offs in response to COVID-19: the case for open and inclusive decision making |
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This symposium examines the challenges and opportunities of recent efforts at embedding
participatory governance. It draws together original research that engages theoretically and …

Recent years have seen a “wave” of national climate assemblies, which bring together
randomly‐selected citizens to deliberate and make recommendations on aspects of the …

When we participate in political debate or protests, we are judged by how we look, which
clothes we wear, by our skin colour, gender and body language. This results in exclusions …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how a systemic view of democracy can
provide insights into the myriad ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic affects democracies …

The EU has recently organised a series of 'citizen-centred'processes that may be indicative
of a new pattern in terms of democracy and participation. The article begins with this …

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens
the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves. Innovatively building on …

Meaningful student participation is essential to realizing democratic ideals within the
university. However, existing structures for involving students within university governance …

Contemporary democracies feature an increasingly diverse and complex variety of
democratic practices. The systematic observation of these practices offers a valuable yet …

Citizen data audits build on Jesús Martín-Barbero's (JMB) theorization of the contemporary
sensorium to foreground citizens' situated, affective responses to datafication. We argue that …