Arguments for deliberative participation in local economic development

Five Arguments for Deliberative Democracy

Five arguments in favour of deliberative democracy are considered. These focus on its educative power, on its community-generating power, on the fairness of the procedure of public deliberation, on the epistemic quality of its outcomes and on the congruence of the deliberative democratic ideal ‘with whom we are’. The first four arguments are shown to be inadequate. The fifth argument, it is cla...

A Basic Critique of Economic Arguments for Local Currencies By

TownHall: a Secure, Deliberative e-Participation System

The potential of e-Participation mechanisms has significantly evolved over time. However, with governments, political parties, corporations, and mass-media controlling the communication channels, citizens who deliberate through e-Participation may have to contend with bias, censorship, and even eavesdropping. TownHall is intended to help manage this burden. As a platform-independent, peer-to-pe...

Deliberative Community Networks for local governance

The paper outlines Deliberative Community Networks as the evolution of Community Networks, as they have been the ‘90es of the 20th century. Deliberative Community Networks aim at overcoming the limits ‘traditional’ Community Networks have shown in involving citizens in the decision making process by local institutions and at supporting the government bodies actually committed to involve citizen...

Deliberative public participation and hexachlorobenzene stockpiles.

This paper is concerned with the quality of citizen involvement in relation to the governance of industrial risks. Specifically, it explores the hexachlorobenzene (HCB) case relative to best practice public participation, which is consistent with deliberative democratic theory. The case could be judged a public participation failure given that the community committee in combination with the cor...