The Paris Citizens' Assembly
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In this episode, I talk with Anouch Toranian, the Deputy Mayor of Paris, Yves Dejaeghere, the Executive Director of the Federation for Innovation in Democracy, Europe and Claudia Chwalisz, leader of innovation in citizen engagement with the OECD about the design and establishment of the Paris Citizens' Assembly.
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3.8 New Zealand's Electoral System with Therese Arseneau
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I'm speaking with Therese Arseneau about the introduction of a mixed-member proportional (MMP) electoral system. Therese talks about the background to the referendum which led to the introduction of MMP in New Zealand [1:20], how voters view the impact of MMP [13:20], the reality of MMP and coalition governments [21:20], the impact of MMP on women's representation [28:10], its wider impact [34:00] and Maori representation generally and the impact of MMP [39:30].
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3.7 Electoral systems in Australia with Antony Green
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In this episode, I’m talking with Antony Green about the Australian electoral system and Vote Compass, a tool which allows voters to explore how their views align with the major parties.
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3.6 Reforming democracy, democratic legitimacy and majority bonuses with Dr Camille Bedock
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In this episode, I’m talking with Dr Camille Bedock about her book Reforming Democracy: Institutional engineering in Western Europe, 1990 - 2010 and also about her more recent research with Sophie Panel on citizen conceptions of how democratic their democracy is and with Nicolas Sauger on how electoral systems with majority bonuses affect electoral competition.
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3.5 Electoral Integrity with Pippa Norris
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In this episode, I am speaking with Professor Pippa Norris about her work on electoral integrity.
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Bonus Ep10 Deliberation Culture Context - John Dryzek
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Professor John Dryzek about his ARC Laureate Fellowship, his reflections on the Conference generally, how we might establish global deliberative processes and directions for future research in this area.
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Bonus Ep9 Deliberation Culture Context - Quinlan Bowman
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Dr Quinlan Bowman about his reflections on the Conference Deliberation, Culture and Context.
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Bonus Ep8 Deliberation Culture Context - John Parkinson
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In this episode, I’m speaking with Professor John Parkinson, who is currently a Professor of Social and Political Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Maastricht University, The Netherlands.
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Bonus Ep7 Deliberation Culture Context - Ian O'Flynn
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In this bonus episode I’m speaking with Dr Ian O'Flynn about his work on deliberation in divided societies.
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Bonus Ep6 Deliberation Culture Context - Stephanie Lawson
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In bonus episode 6 I’m speaking with Professor Stephanie Lawson, Professor of Politics and International Relations at the Macquarie University about her paper ‘Consensus Politics and Democracy in the Pacific Islands: A Critique’ which she presented at the Deliberation, Culture and Context conference.
info_outlineIn today's episode, I speak with Professor Graham Smith and Professor Brigitte Geißel about the evaluation frameworks they have each developed to assess the value of democratic innovations.
I ask each of them how their frameworks apply to deliberative mini-publics and they provide quite different assessments of the value and effectiveness of deliberative mini-publics as democratic innovations.
Professor Smith's framework identifies four democratic goods:
- inclusiveness
- popular control
- considered judgement and
- transparency.
Professor Geißel's analytical framework comprises five criteria:
- inclusive participation
- meaningful participation
- legitimacy
- effectiveness and
- citizen enlightenment.
As you can see, there are some similarities between these frameworks. However, the conclusions each person draws about the value and effectiveness of deliberative mini-publics is quite different.
In next week's episode (the final one for Season 1) I talk to three other academics who take a critical perspective on the operation of deliberative mini-publics:
- Professor Cristina La Font from Northwestern University in the US,
- Associate Professor Caroline Lee from Lafayette College in the US and
- Associate Professor Genevieve Fuji Johnson from Simon Fraser University in Canada.
I hope you'll join me then.