Designing institutions for citizen participation

A book providing a comparative analysis of innovative democratic practices, including popular assemblies, mini-publics, direct legislation, and e-democracy.

How can we design institutions that increase and deepen citizen participation in the political decision-making process? At a time when disillusionment is growing with democratic institutions, this classic book draws important lessons from the systematic analysis of democratic innovation around the world, including citizens' assemblies in Canada, participatory budgeting in Brazil, direct legislation in California and Switzerland, and emerging experiments in digital democracy.

Source: Academia
Author information: Graham Smith

Year of publication: 2009