As representative democracy is increasingly criticized, a new institution is becoming popular
among academics and practitioners: deliberative citizens' assemblies. To evaluate whether …

Public administrations increasingly try to find new ways to involve citizens in policy‐making.
However, many democratic innovations draw in only a fraction of the public. Why? I …

Worldwide, open data initiatives aim at making information publicly available and
transparent. Increasingly, local governments (LGs) are publishing financial statements in …

Citizens that tend to experience political exclusion are often more supportive of direct and
participatory forms of decision-making. We empirically verify two competing explanatory …

Increased citizen participation through democratic innovation is an increasingly popular
response to the dual challenges of complex global problems and democratic malaise …

This article investigates the determinants of populist attitudes among ethnic minorities. It
breaks with conventional studies of the so-called losers of globalization, which focus almost …

Should those who would be disproportionately affected by a policy change have more
influence on that reform than the average citizen? And does it matter whether the affected …

Conjoint experiments are a standard tool to measure (stated) preferences in the context of
multidimensional choices on issues ranging from immigration to democratic innovations …

Politicians are less likely to breach constitutional fiscal rules than statutory rules because the
breach of constitutional rules arguably puts them in a more negative spotlight and hampers …

Among the success factors of participatory budgeting (PB), Barbera et al.(2016b) discuss
responsiveness, in terms of “continuous attention to citizens' needs” and the capacity to …