Title The politics of public deliberation : citizen engagement and interest advocacy / Carolyn M. Hendriks

Published Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 270 pages) Contents PART I: SETTING THE SCENE -- Public Deliberation in the Context of Interest Advocacy -- Worlds Apart or Connected? Interest Advocacy and Public Deliberation -- The Features and Principles of Citizens' Forums -- PART II: EMPIRICAL INSIGHTS -- CDL Case: Deliberation Waste -- GeneTech Case: Deliberation Digested -- Consumer Case: Deliberation Over-Protected -- Diagnostics Case: Deliberation Tested -- PART III: IMPLICATIONS -- The Challenges of Citizens' Forums -- Strategic Uses of Public Deliberation -- Accommodating Interest Advocacy in Public Deliberation -- References -- Index -- € -- -- € Public deliberation in the context of interest advocacy -- Worlds apart or connected? : interest advocacy and public deliberation -- The features and principles of citizens' forums -- CDL case : deliberation wasted -- GeneTech case : deliberation digested -- Consumer case : deliberation over-protected -- Diagnostics case : deliberation tested -- The challenges of citizens' forums -- Strategic uses of public deliberation -- Accommodating interest advocacy in public deliberation Summary Innovative democratic institutions have been developed to engage citizens directly in deliberations about public policy. All around the globe ordinary people are being invited to contribute their considered views on complex policy issues to decision makers. The Politics of Public Deliberation explores how these novel approaches to citizen engagement work alongside the array of political institutions and practices that are not based on participatory and deliberative norms. In particular, it looks at how such approaches are received and accommodated by key political actors who are more accustomed to interest-based modes of political communication, such as pressure groups, corporations, associations and experts. It takes a critical look at the relationship between the ideals of public deliberation and the political world of interest advocacy, where partisanship, power, and interests abound. Drawing on the experiences of four citizen engagement projects, the book offers rare insights into the political world of public deliberation, and the reasons why partisan actors engage in or reject processes of citizen engagement Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Subject Deliberative democracy -- Case studies Political participation -- Case studies Group decision making -- Case studies Pressure groups -- Case studies Political structures: democracy. Public administration. Communication studies. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civics & Citizenship. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Advocacy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. Politics and Government. Deliberative democracy Group decision making Political participation Pressure groups Demokratie Interessenvertretung Politische Beteiligung Politische Institution Genre/Form Case studies Form Electronic book Author Hendriks, Carolyn ISBN 9780230347564 0230347568

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