Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies

Dean, Rikki; Smith, Graham

doi:10.1111/padm.12883

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“…In a research field dominated by individual case studies, no larger comparative study is available that assesses environmental outcomes, involves non-participatory cases as a control-group, includes context variables, and controls for the role governmental agencies. At the same time, participation remains a hotly debated topic, with some countries seeking to increase efficiency through re-centralization, while others are experimenting with novel forms of participation ( Boswell et al, 2023 ). In this context, it is more important than ever to have sound evidence on what has worked previously in participatory governance.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies

Newig

Jager

Challies

et al. 2023

Global Environmental Change

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies

Newig

Jager

Challies

et al. 2023

Global Environmental Change

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“…Strengthening the follow-up processes will be crucial in building public trust in this model of participatory governance, as one of our interviewees observed, "I think they're really interesting kind of models to try and get that diversity of input and it could really have an impact [...] and yet I'm never quite sure about what's actually locked in place in terms of acting upon what comes out of those". Of course, Climate Assemblies have their own problems, with a recent study finding they cannot be treated as a standardised object with predictable effects on legitimacy and governance capacity (Boswell et al, 2022).…”

Section: Moving Forwardsmentioning

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Politics, voice and just transition: who has a say in climate change decision making, and who does not

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Dietzel

Godshaw

et al. 2023

Global Social Challenges Journal

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The city of Bristol, UK, set out to pursue a just transition to climate change in 2020. This paper explores what happened next. We set out to study how just transition is unfolding politically on the ground, focusing on procedural justice. Over the course of a year, we conducted interviews and observations to study decision making at three levels – public sector, private sector and civil society. We found that not only is it difficult to define what just transition means, even for experts, but that the process of deciding how to pursue such a transition is highly exclusionary, especially to women and ethnic minorities. We therefore argue there is an urgency to revise decision-making procedures and ensure that there is ample opportunity to feed into decision-making processes by those who are typically excluded. Inclusive decision making must be embedded into the process of just transition from the beginning and throughout its implementation – it is not a step that can be ‘ticked off’ and then abandoned, but rather an ongoing process that must be consistently returned to. Finally, we conclude that cities have the unique opportunity to pilot bottom-up participatory approaches and to feed into the process of how a just transition might be pursued at the global level – for example, through their participation in the United Nations Framework for the Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Conference of the Parties (COP) processes.

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“…Boswell et al (2022), in this issue, build on this framework in their analysis of six European climate assemblies, which were organized as deliberative mini‐publics that have engaged citizens on climate policy issues. They draw on the robust politics framework to investigate the “integrative design” of these assemblies, which is concerned with how mini‐publics are embedded in and integrated with their wider social and political environments.…”

Section: Strategies For Advancing the Robust Governance Paradigmmentioning

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“…On the policy level, robustness is enhanced when policy is "modularized" in such a way that it provides latitude to customize policy to local contexts and when policy allows for different narrative interpretations that facilitate coalition-building. Boswell et al (2022), in this issue, build on this framework in their analysis of six European climate assemblies, which were organized as deliberative mini-publics that have engaged citizens on climate policy issues. They draw on the robust politics framework to investigate the "integrative design" of these assemblies, which is concerned with how mini-publics are embedded in and integrated with their wider social and political environments.…”

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confidence: 99%

Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

Ansell

Sørensen

Torfing

2022

Public Administration

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Public governance has always been challenged by turbulence, defined as "situations where events, demands, and support interact and change in highly variable, inconsistent, unexpected or unpredictable ways" (Ansell & Trondal, 2017, p. 1). Social conflicts, economic recession, war, and political leadership contests create turmoil and chaos to which governments aim to respond with a mixture of repression, concession, reform, and regime change to maintain or restore some form of social, economic, and political order. Political philosophers such as Machiavelli and Hobbes depicted history as a circular movement where the rise of relatively stable regimes predicated on the excise of hard power ultimately gives way to decadence, corruption, and ruin that erode the social and political order. In contrast, Hegel and Marx portrayed history as a linear trajectory governed by the rational unfolding of a dialectics whereby new, contradicting developments challenge the old, stable structures, thus leading to turbulent transitions that bring society to higher and higher stages. Despite their different views on history, they all agreed that order is temporary and invariably disturbed by short spells of crisis and heightened turbulence occurring at regular intervals but tending to foster a new period of relatively stable rule.Today, there seems to be a new sense that turbulence has become a chronic and endemic condition for modern governance. This new condition cannot be traced to any single factor, arising instead from multiple interacting developments. A first factor is that acute or creeping crises seem to be arising more frequently, affecting a wider range of sectors, spilling across political boundaries, and possibly producing multiple interacting crises (dubbed "poly-crisis" by Zeitlin et al., 2019). A second factor is how social, economic, and political interactions among widely distributed, multilevel parties are accelerating-producing interactions of surprising speed, scale, and scope (Hong & Lee, 2018). Communication and information technologies create lightning-fast information exchanges demanding a rapid and timely response to far-flung citizens, suppliers, stakeholders, and decision-makers who may not have even been part of the administrative picture until recently. Keeping up with potentially destabilizing, mediatized events can easily devolve into a constant stream of fire drills (Cottle, 2006). A third source of turbulence arises from an intensification of political conflict that challenges existing norms and mechanisms of conflict mediation. While public organizations are familiar with politics and conflict, they must now adapt to shifting political issues, polarized populations, rapid leadership turnover, clashing reform agendas, and uncertain planning horizons-sometimes all at once (Kriesi et al., 2012).Although the concept of turbulence implies the need to respond and adapt to change, it refers to a certain kind of adaptation and certain kind of change. When change is slow and steady, when shifts and trends c...

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Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies

Cited by 31 publications

References 42 publications

Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies

Does stakeholder participation improve environmental governance? Evidence from a meta-analysis of 305 case studies

Politics, voice and just transition: who has a say in climate change decision making, and who does not

Public administration and politics meet turbulence: The search for robust governance responses

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