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Message received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems

Boswell, John; Hendriks, Carolyn; Ercan, Selen A.

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With the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory, there is renewed and broadened emphasis on the inclusion of all affected by a political decision in the making of those decisions. The key enabler of inclusion at a system level is transmission: theoretically, a deliberative system is more democratic if it can foster the transmission of claims and ideas across different sites, especially between informal sites of public deliberation and the more formal institutions of...[Show more]

dc.contributor.authorBoswell, John
dc.contributor.authorHendriks, Carolyn
dc.contributor.authorErcan, Selen A.
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-10T05:32:18Z
dc.identifier.issn1946-0171
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/116871
dc.description.abstractWith the systemic turn in deliberative democratic theory, there is renewed and broadened emphasis on the inclusion of all affected by a political decision in the making of those decisions. The key enabler of inclusion at a system level is transmission: theoretically, a deliberative system is more democratic if it can foster the transmission of claims and ideas across different sites, especially between informal sites of public deliberation and the more formal institutions of political decision-making. Yet little is known about the mechanisms of transmission in deliberative systems. How, and to what effect, is transmission facilitated in practice? This paper draws on case studies of three promising mechanisms of deliberative transmission: institutional, innovative and discursive. We discuss the key factors that enable or hinder different forms of transmission, and reflect on the ways in which they might be strengthened in deliberative systems. Our analysis suggests that the systemic turn in deliberative democracy should go hand-in-hand with a nuanced understanding of how transmission occurs across different sites. As such, our discussion has important implications for deliberative scholars and practitioners as they go about conceptualizing, studying and steering deliberative democracy at the large scale.
dc.description.sponsorshipPart of this research was funded by the newDemocracy foundation.
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights© 2016 Institute of Local Government Studies, University of Birmingham
dc.sourceCritical Policy Studies
dc.titleMessage received? Examining transmission in deliberative systems
dc.typeJournal article
local.identifier.citationvolume10
dc.date.issued2016
local.publisher.urlhttp://www.routledge.com/
local.type.statusPublished Version
local.contributor.affiliationHendriks, C., Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.bibliographicCitation.issue3
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage263
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage283
local.identifier.doi10.1080/19460171.2016.1188712
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
CollectionsANU Research Publications

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