Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance

Front Matter
Copyright
Contents
Figures and tables
Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction to the Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance: the field of democratic innovation
SECTION I TYPES OF DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION
1. Defining and typologising democratic innovations
2. Democratic innovations and theories of democracy
3. Mini-publics: design choices and legitimacy
4. Collaborative governance: between invited and invented spaces
5. The long journey of participatory budgeting
6. Referendums and citizens’ initiatives
7. Digital participation
SECTION II DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS AND THE DEMOCRATIC MALAISE
8. Does political trust matter?
9. Accountability and democratic innovations
10. Anti-politics and democratic innovation
11. The impact of democratic innovations on citizens’ efficacy
SECTION III ACTORS IN DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION
12. Facilitators: the micropolitics of public participation and deliberation
13. Consultants: the emerging participation industry
14. Public servants in innovative democratic governance
15. Experts: the politics of evidence and expertise in democratic innovation
16. Advocates: interest groups, civil society organisations and democratic innovation
17. The role of elected representatives in democratic innovations
18. Journalists: the role of the media in democratic innovation
SECTION IV DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS IN POLICY AND GOVERNANCE
19. Democratic innovations and the policy process
20. Democratic innovation in science and technology
21. Democratic innovation in social policy
22. Democratic innovation and environmental governance
23. Democratic innovation in constitutional reform
24. Democratic innovation in transnational and global governance
SECTION V DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS AROUND THE WORLD
25. Democratic innovations in North America
26. Democratic innovations in Latin America
27. Democratic innovations in Europe
28. Trends in democratic innovation in Asia
29. Democratic innovation in Australasia
30. Local democratic innovations in Africa
SECTION VI RESEARCH METHODS FOR THE STUDY OF DEMOCRATIC INNOVATIONS
31. Quantitative methods in democratic innovation research
32. Qualitative approaches to democratic innovations
33. Mixed methods research in democratic innovation
34. Using experiments to study democratic innovations
35. From discourse quality index to deliberative transformative moments
36. Analysing deliberative transformation: a multi-level approach incorporating Q methodology
37. Comparative approaches to the study of democratic innovation
CONCLUDING CHAPTER
38. Reflections on the theory and practice of democratic innovations
Index