Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation: A Critical Review of Formats for Deliberative Policymaking
Language: English
Published by Springer Nature, 2025
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- Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation: A Critical Review of Formats for Deliberative Policymaking
- Author
- Renn, Ortwin/ Webler, Thomas/ Schweizer, Pia-johanna
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- Springer Nature
- Publication year
- 2025
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- Hardcover
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- English
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- 3032023017
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- 9783032023018
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This book examines fair citizen participation as a key element of effective policy support. Over the past two decades, many countries have embraced more reflective and inclusive governance in environmental policymaking.
This book demonstrates how democratic and deliberative approaches yield better policy outcomes than technocratic methods that only superficially engage the public. Reflective governance highlights the importance of deliberative democracy, offering fair and open discourse opportunities for all stakeholders. Throughout the chapters, some of the most renowned authors in the field present the principal mechanisms for public engagement in deliberative decision-making.
By exploring innovative formats like stakeholder round tables and citizen assemblies, this book provides practical guidance on their unique merits and limitations. It addresses scholars, practitioners, and representatives of administrations, public and private institutions, and NGOs interested in a better understanding of the selection and design of the most effective formats for competent and fair policymaking, ensuring each format meets its full potential.
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About the Author
Ortwin Renn is a social scientist focusing on risk governance and public participation. He retired as Scientific Director at the International Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam (Germany) in December 2022 and serves as a Professor Emeritus for Environmental Sociology and Technology Assessment at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He directs the non-profit company DIALOGIK, a research institute for the investigation of communication and participation processes. His research interests include risk governance (analysis, perception, communication), stakeholder and public involvement in environmental decision-making, transformation processes in economics, politics and society, and sustainable development.
Thomas Webler is a Senior Research Fellow at the Social and Environmental Research Institute in Massachusetts, USA. He studies community engagement in decision-making about controversial technologies. His current research focuses on civic capacity building for public participation in consent-based siting of controversial energy facilities such as deep geological repositories for nuclear waste, wind energy facilities, and solar farms.
Pia-Johanna Schweizer leads the Research Group “Systemic Risk” at the RIFS Research Institute for Sustainability at GFZ in Potsdam, Germany. She is a Co-Speaker of the RIFS Research Theme “Transforming Human-Earth Interactions”. A trained sociologist, she focuses primarily on systemic risk, risk governance, and deliberative decision-making under risk and uncertainty. Schweizer investigates decision-making support efforts for risk management, as well as improving dialogue and cooperation of actors on all governance levels based on enhanced engagement, communication, and risk management strategies. Her research focuses on mechanisms of systemic risk propagation across society, multi-hazard/multi-risk phenomena, and inclusive risk governance.
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