Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana | British Journal of Political Science | Cambridge Core Are Democratic Innovations Legitimate to the Broader Public? Evidence from Survey Experiments in Ghana - Volume 55

So wonderful to see #demoinno being studied in the global south contexts. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
"Ghanaians ascribe higher legitimacy to citizen deliberative bodies (mini-publics), open participatory processes, and citizen-elite deliberation processes relative to the status quo."

In Zurich next week: Inequality and Deliberation Summer School - and the keynote, roundtable and morning seminars are open to registered auditors 🤓

Registration link: www.ema.uzh.ch/en/register/...

@democracynet.bsky.social #Zurich #Democracy #DemoInno #DemocracyStudies

Catching up with #demoinno in Latin America with challenging findings by @welpita.bsky.social, @ernestoisunza.bsky.social, Adrian Gurza, Gisela Zaremberg, and Sofia Donoso.

The kickoff: “Democratizing the State”, now out: www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

PhD Scholarship at the Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen (UCPH): Citizens’ Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems (CASDS)

CfA: PhD scholarship in political theory @ucph.bsky.social

Part of my project "Citizens' Agenda-Setting in Democratic Systems," which will explore how citizens should participate in making political agendas

Apply by Aug. 3, 2025
➡️ employment.ku.dk/all-vacancie...

#PolTheory #demoinno

Increasing and Diversifying Turnout in Non-electoral Participation: A Field Experiment - Political Behavior Participation in non-electoral initiatives holds significance for good governance and democratic engagement, although they often encounter challenges like low involvement and the under-representation ...

The study (by Annabelle Wittels) uses a field experiment to test if making #participatorygovernance more appealing boosts non-electoral participation. Finding: "all tested interventions significantly decrease participation in the governance initiative"
#demoinno

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#demoinno people would be happy to read this.

Global Citizens' Assembly Directory - Global Citizens’ Assembly Network We are building our directory of organisations, funders, networks, and advocates working on forums of global citizen deliberation.

Hello #demoinno #delibwave community!

We're updating our website and are looking out for news on global and transnational deliberative processes.

How are your projects going? Any transnational citizens' assembly we're missing in our directory? Please let us know!

glocan.org/about/direct...

Failure to Launch: Tracing the Trajectory of Democratic Innovation Adoption in Canada | Canadian Journal of Political Science/Revue canadienne de science politique | Cambridge Core Failure to Launch: Tracing the Trajectory of Democratic Innovation Adoption in Canada

Delighted to announce a new (open access) paper the wonderful @meganmattes.bsky.social and me - Failure to Launch: Tracing the Trajectory of Democratic Innovation Adoption in Canada #polsky #demoinno

www.cambridge.org/core/journal... (1/?)

Just moved my academic social media presence from X (RIP Twitter) to Bluesky. Looking forward to reconnecting with the wonderful #demoinno research community 👋 Thank you @rikkidean.bsky.social for providing a great starter pack for that! go.bsky.app/LX11yEA

We follow in the steps of four cohorts of brilliant collleagues who, within 14 years, brought together a Europe-wide and international network of scholars. Today, with 500+ members, the #DemoInno standing group is one of ECPR’s largest, most vibrant research communities.

Call for Papers: The Political Economy of Democratic Innovations Panel proposal for the Democratic Innovations section of the ECPR General Conference 2025. Chairs: Adrian Bua (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) and Lucy Parry (University of Edinburgh and University of Canberra) Discussant: Oliver Escobar (University of Edinburgh) Since their inception, democratic innovations (DIs) have been touted as a means for addressing crises of democracy. By reconnecting citizens with political decision-making, empowering marginalised communities, they aim to foster a more inclusive, responsive governance system. The urgency of realising these ambitions is sharpening. Environmental, political, economic and social challenges are emerging and deepening, and our collective capacity to deal with these in an equitable and democratic manner seems to be diminishing. The capacity of democratic innovations to deliver on these ambitions remains questionable. Emerging empirical evidence casts doubt on their transformative potential and problematises simplified narratives on impact. In response, recent scholarship in democratic innovations and participatory democracy has called for greater understanding of their interaction with capitalist dynamics. By examining the ways in which DIs both reflect and reshape socioeconomic conditions, scholars are beginning to question whether and how they can drive significant change. We seek theoretical and empirical contributions that critically examine how DIs both reflect and reconfigure socioeconomic realities, encouraging papers that explore the ways in which practices interact with social power structures, state institutions, and collective agency, highlighting the transformative potential and challenges faced by DIs.

📝Call for papers - The Political Economy of Democratic Innovations. Join us next summer at the European Consortium of Political Research 📎 We're organising a panel for the Standing Group on Democratic Innovations #demoinno #democracy @edinburghpir.bsky.social
Info 👉 www.linkedin.com/posts/lucy-j...

In this Newsletter: 2024 UK General Election Series: Representation in the New Parliament Launch Party: The People Act – Legislative Theatre Around the World New Resource Hub for Legislative Theatre Territory, Nationhood and the Struggle for Self-Determination Webinar: Remixing Democracy – How to Connect Democratic Practices into Stronger Ecosystems Edinburgh Radical Book Fair 2024: From Where We Stand We Are It: Community Power in Our Time Call for Papers: Participatory and Deliberative Innovations across Policy Areas Video: Deliberative Democracy for Breaking the Gridlock Report: Life in the UK 2024 – A Measure of the UK’s Collective Wellbeing About the Citizen Participation Network

👋🏽Just out - November newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network 🗞️ with events, resources, conferences, webinars and publications on participatory & deliberative #democracy #demopart #demoinno 🌐 Available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

In this Newsletter: WHO’s Guide to Mini-publics Call for Papers: Deliberation, Politics and Culture Win-Win Workout: Should the UK Legalise Assisted Dying? New Event: Presentation by Professor David Schlosberg New Event: Are Mini-publics Enough to Promote Deliberative Democracy? Conference: Towards Relational Public Services Coalition for A Global Citizens Assembly INSPIRE: New European Research Project to Co-design More Inclusive Democratic Spaces

🗞️🤓April newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network including events, publications, deliberative workshops, resources, new initiatives and research projects #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #delibwave #demopart #demoinno Available here 👉 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...

newsletter table of contents: In this Newsletter: How Can We Balance the Benefits and Risks of Generative AI? Behavioural Research UK Online Lauch Student Mini-Publics: How to Run Democratic Innovations in Universities Special Issue of the Concept Journal Final Report of The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales New Handbook: Organising Local Citizens’ Assemblies New Book: The Impacts of Democratic Innovations Democratic Innovations Podcast: Changing Bureaucracy Post-doctoral and Senior Research Fellowships: the OSUN Forum on Democracy and Development Two Job Opportunities at Goethe University Frankfurt Join the G1000 Spring School - Early Bird Registration Ends Tomorrow About the Citizen Participation Network

🗞️February newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network, packed with
events,
training,
new research projects,
job opportunities,
publications,
podcasts
& practical resources
on all things #democracy #participation #demoinno #delibwave
Open access 👉🏼 www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-j...