Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe
Author | : Min Reuchamps |
Publisher | : ECPR Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2016-02 |
ISBN-10 | : 1785521454 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781785521454 |
Rating | : 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions. Estonia, Luxembourg and Romania have also experienced constitutional process in a deliberative mode, and in Belgium, a citizen-led initiative has fostered a wider societal debate about the role and place of citizens in the country's democracy. At the same time, European institutions have introduced different forms of deliberative democracy as a way to reinvolve citizens. These empirical cases are emblematic of a possibly constitutional turn in deliberative democracy in Europe. This book critically assesses these developments, bringing together academics involved in the design of these new forms of constitutional deliberative democracy with the theorists who propagated the ideas.