What Good Are Democratic Innovations? Evidence from Around the World

Session Submission Type: Virtual Created Panel

Session Description

Democratic innovations are supposed to empower the inclusion of citizens in decision-making, encourage learning and opinion change, and ultimately increase the perceived legitimacy of collective decisions. How effective are democratic innovations at achieving these goals? To what extent do citizens themselves perceive democratic innovations to be effective tools for achieving these goals? Do democratic innovations aim to achieve (and succeed in achieving) similar goals across regional contexts, or do democratic innovations arise (and have different impacts) in different parts of the world? The papers on this panel help answer these questions by linking theory and empirical methods to the study democratic innovations from around the globe.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Democratic Innovations

Individual Presentations

• How Can Participatory Processes Improve Democracy? A Citizens’ Perspective - Lisa van Dijk, KU Leuven; Hannah Werner, University of Leuven; Sofie Marien, University of Leuven

• Linking a Mini-Public to the Larger Public: Evidence from a Swiss Popular Vote - Alexander Matthias Geisler, Université de Genève; Nenad Stojanovic, University of Geneva

• The Emergence of Democratic Innovations in Latin America - Ernesto Cruz Ruiz, Technical University of Munich

• Social Capital for Shaping Norms to Address Democratic Legitimacy and Inclusion? - Dale Mineshima-Lowe, Birkbeck, University of London

Chair

• Edana Beauvais Simon Fraser University

Discussants

• Thamy Pogrebinschi WZB Berlin Social Science Center

• Megan Mattes Simon Fraser University