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Chambers, Simone

doi:10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085538

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“…13, p. 11). A line of theory stretching from Dewey to Habermas, among others, argues that public deliberation is the essence of democracy and that public participation processes can improve the ability of democracies to deal with serious challenges (14)(15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22). Is public participation up to that challenge?…”

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Bringing values and deliberation to science communication

Dietz

2013

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values. Public participation inevitably involves both facts and values. Research on public participation suggests that linking scientific analysis to public deliberation in an iterative process can help decision making deal effectively with both facts and values. Thus, linked analysis and deliberation can be an effective tool for science communication. However, challenges remain in conducting such process at the national and global scales, in enhancing trust, and in reconciling diverse values.

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Bringing values and deliberation to science communication

Dietz

2013

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“…The introduction of new forms of deliberation, in contrast, is about limiting the risks of "political domination by rendering states accountable to (some of) the citizenry'' (Fraser, 1990: 59). Drawing on ideas of deliberative democracy, spaces of debate and consultation are created in order to provide a collective holding to account of leaders and encourage discussion as a way of reaching decisions (Abelson et al, 2003;Chambers, 2003). Both democratic deliberation and decentralization share a concern with strengthening democratization processes whether through top-down institutional reforms or bottom-up voice practices.…”

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The Politics of Indigenous Participation Through “Free Prior Informed Consent”: Reflections from the Bolivian Case

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Grugel

2016

World Development

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This article explores the challenges of ethnic-based participation and its potential for creating inclusive and effective forms of decision-making for marginalized social groups. Empirically, it examines a recent attempt to establish more participative forms of resource and development governance for indigenous communities in Bolivia through Free Prior and Informed Consent/Consultation (FPIC). Rooted in international human rights law, FPIC aims at achieving more effective bottom-up participation by establishing an obligation to consult -or obtain the consent of -indigenous peoples before large development projects and legal reforms that would affect them can proceed. Interest in FPIC initiatives has been growing for reasons that range from efforts to build more equitable management of natural resources to attempts to introduce more effective local-scale practices of participation and active citizenship. We argue that the idea of prior consultation and FPIC itself are not neutral instruments; they will not automatically lead to better or more democratic governance and a more equal society. The way in which FPIC is currently being implemented and framed in Bolivia is in tension with broader ideas of representation and legitimacy, inclusiveness and management of public and common goods because there is no real clarity as to who is entitled to participation, why they do and whether they are doing so as a corrective to exclusion, a promotion of citizenship or as a mechanism for redistribution. As we show here, FPIC implementation can have unintended consequences and consultation can sometimes embed existing social, cultural and economic tensions. The paper eventually offers some broader reflections on participatory governance and collective rights especially in relation to the tensions between inclusive participation and exclusive rights or -put differently -the challenges for building cultures of participation and inclusion in complex and ethnic diverse democracies.

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“…The adherents of the deliberative democracy option are in favor of democracy in which people address collective problems by deliberating together about how best to solve them: democracy is thus associated with the image of deliberation. Though those two paradigms of democracy differ in some aspects, some theorists maintain that they are complementary rather than competing theories of democracy (Chambers, 2003;Cini, 2011). The matrix be-low reflects various kinds of public events that use or don't use the methods of participatory and deliberative democracy (see table 1).…”

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