Despite the growing body of literature on participatory and collaborative governance, little is
known about citizens' motives for participation in such new governance arrangements. The …

The book offers a solid theory and conceptualization of technocratic politics and the
technocratic challenge is analyzed empirically at all levels of the national and supra-national …

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Abstract The German Coal Commission brought together stakeholders from business,
unions, environmental groups and the scientific field, local politicians and citizen …

THE proper institutionalization of the ideal of deliberative democracy remains a contested
issue. Whereas discourse theory conjures up the ideal of democracy as based on face-to …

In Habermas' counterfactual ideal speech situation, speakers are equals and coordinate
their beliefs and action plans through a rational discourse. They make and challenge validity …

Across two experiments conducted at the end of the last presidential election, we replicate
previous findings that exposure to incivility while viewing political debates on Facebook can …

This book examines the democratic legitimacy of the European Union (EU) and evaluates
the democratic credentials of the EU's main decision-making procedure. It finds that though …

Theories of deliberative democracy are popular for their promise that in a deliberative polity,
democracy can realise both participatory politics and rational policies. However, they are …

Democratic innovations have been widely presented by both academics and practitioners as
a potential remedy to the crisis of representative democracy. Many argue that deliberation …