The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the future of deliberative democracy
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The Australian Citizens' Parliament and the future of deliberative democracy
(Rhetoric and democratic deliberation / edited by Cheryl Glenn and J. Michael Hogan)
Pennsylvania State University Press, c2013
- : pbk
- : cloth
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Note
Other authors: John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, Ron Lubensky
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Growing numbers of scholars, practitioners, politicians, and citizens recognize the value of deliberative civic engagement processes that enable citizens and governments to come together in public spaces and engage in constructive dialogue, informed discussion, and decisive deliberation. This book seeks to fill a gap in empirical studies in deliberative democracy by studying the assembly of the Australian Citizens' Parliament (ACP), which took place in Canberra on February 6-8, 2009. The ACP addressed the question "How can the Australian political system be strengthened to serve us better?"
The ACP's Canberra assembly is the first large-scale, face-to-face deliberative project to be completely audio-recorded and transcribed, enabling an unprecedented level of qualitative and quantitative assessment of participants' actual spoken discourse. Each chapter reports on different research questions for different purposes to benefit different audiences. Combined, they exhibit how diverse modes of research focused on a single event can enhance both theoretical and practical knowledge about deliberative democracy.
Table of Contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lyn Carson, John Gastil, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Ron Lubensky
Part I: Deliberative Design and Innovation
1 Origins of the First Citizens' Parliament
Lyn Carson and Luca Belgiorno-Nettis
2 Putting Citizens in Charge: Comparing the Australian Citizens' Parliament and the Australia 2020 Summit
Janette Hartz-Karp and Lyn Carson
3 Choose Me: The Challenges of National Random Selection
Ron Lubensky and Lyn Carson
4 Grafting an Online Parliament onto a Face-to-Face Process
Brian Sullivan and Janette Hartz-Karp
Part II: Exploring Deliberation
5 Listening Carefully to the Citizens' Parliament: A Narrative Account
Ron Lubensky
6 Deliberative Design and Storytelling in the Australian Citizens' Parliament
Laura W. Black and Ron Lubensky
7 What Counts as Deliberation? Comparing Participant and Observer Ratings
John Gastil
8 Hearing All Sides? Soliciting and Managing Different Viewpoints in Deliberation
Anna Wiederhold and John Gastil
9 Sit Down and Speak Up: Stability and Change in Group Participation
Joseph A. Bonito, Renee A. Meyers, John Gastil, and Jennifer Ervin
Part III: The Flow of Beliefs and Ideas
10 Changing Orientations Toward Australian Democracy
Simon Niemeyer, Luisa Batalha, and John S. Dryzek
11 Staying Focused: Tracing the Flow of Ideas from the Online Parliament to Canberra
John Gastil and John Wilkerson
12 Evidence of Peer Influence in the Citizens' Parliament
Luc Tucker and John Gastil
Part IV: Facilitation and Organizer Effects
13 The Unsung Heroes of a Deliberative Process: Reflections on the Role of Facilitators at the Citizens' Parliament
Max Hardy and Kath Fisher, with Janette Hartz-Karp
14 Are They Doing What They Are Supposed to Do? Assessing the Facilitating Process of the Australian Citizens' Parliament
Li Li, Fletcher Ziwoya, Laura W. Black, and Janette Hartz-Karp
15 Supporting the Citizen Parliamentarians: Mobilizing Perspectives and Informing Discussion
Ian Marsh and Lyn Carson
16 Investigation of (and Introspection on) Organizer Bias
Lyn Carson
Part V: Impacts and Reflections
17 Participant Accounts of Political Transformation
Katie Knobloch and John Gastil
18 Becoming Australian: Forging a National Identity
Janette Hartz-Karp, Patrick Anderson, John Gastil, and Andrea Felicetti
19 Mediated Meta-deliberation: Making Sense of the Australian Citizens' Parliament
Eike Mark Rinke, Katie Knobloch, John Gastil, and Lyn Carson
20 How Not to Introduce Deliberative Democracy: The 2010 Citizens' Assembly on Climate Change Proposal
Lyn Carson
Conclusion: Theoretical and Practical Implications of the Citizens' Parliament Experience
Janette Hartz-Karp, Lyn Carson, John Gastil, and Ron Lubensky
Index
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