The emergence of citizen panels as a de facto standard

Amelung, Nina

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“…Still, as Béland and Howlett (2016, 393f) point out, 'the fact that solutions sometimes chase problems remains an anomalous observation upsetting the prevailing orthodoxy in the field' . What shall we make of observations such as sweeping fashions like network access regulation for the liberalization of utility services and tradable permits for environmental protection (Voß, 2007a), or methods of small group deliberation for citizen participation (Amelung 2012;Amelung & Grabner, 2017)? And what happens around abrupt U-turns in design orientations as part of such diffusion and convergence processes, like the European Union shifting from energy taxes to emissions trading around 2000 (Christiansen & Wettestad, 2003;Voß, 2007b;?…”

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The concept of instrument constituencies: accounting for dynamics and practices of knowing governance

Simons

Voß²

2017

Policy and Society

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As a new concept in policy analysis, instrument constituencies shed light on the 'supply side' of policy-making and thereby fill a gap in our understanding of national and transnational policy dynamics. Policy instruments are not only 'active' because they contain scripts for reordering society but also because they gather a constituency comprised of practices and actors oriented towards developing, maintaining and expanding a specific instrumental model of governing. Instrument constituencies account for a hitherto neglected form of agency and explain the often-observed paradox that policy solutions sometimes chase policy problems, although the former are meant to emerge as answers to the later. We give an outline of the concept as it has been developed so far, formulate propositions, and discuss linkages with established research traditions in policy studies. 1 this definition includes policy instruments meant to achieve specific policy goals (e.g. market-based instruments for climate emissions reduction) but also instruments of the policy process, related to aspects such as orchestration and decision-making, impact assessment and evaluation, and to instruments of legitimation such as particular models of democracy, specific procedures of political representation, citizen participation or public relations.

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The concept of instrument constituencies: accounting for dynamics and practices of knowing governance

Simons

Voß²

2017

Policy and Society

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“…I acknowledge cooperation with all my colleagues involved in this endeavour and generous funding by the German Federal Ministry of Research and Education (grant number 01UU0906). Empirical work on emissions trading was carried out in cooperation with Arno Simons (Simons and Voß, 2014;Voß and Simons, 2014; Simons, forthcoming), on citizen panels with Nina Amelung (Amelung, 2012;Voß and Amelung, submitted). It comprised a review of academic literature and process documents as well as 45 interviews with people who were involved in the making of those instruments in different roles.…”

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Realizing Instruments: Performativity in Emissions Trading and Citizen Panels

Voß¹

2016

Knowing Governance

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“…Citizen panels appear as a specific form of what Sloterdijk and von der Haegen (2005) ironically advertise as 'instant democracy': The panels offer a mobile and flexible device for generating democratic legitimacy. The format has become a de facto standard of participatory governance (Amelung, 2012) and it is attracting attention as a democratic innovation (Geissel and Newton, 2011;Saward, 2000;Smith, 2009).…”

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Innovating public participation methods: Technoscientization and reflexive engagement

Voß

Amelung

2016

Soc Stud Sci

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We reconstruct the innovation journey of 'citizen panels', as a family of participation methods, over four decades and across different sites of development and application. A process of aggregation leads from local practices of designing participatory procedures like the citizens jury, planning cell, or consensus conference in the 1970s and 1980s, to the disembedding and proliferation of procedural formats in the 1990s, and into the trans-local consolidation of participatory practices through laboratory-based expertise since about 2000. Our account highlights a central irony: antitechnocratic engagements with governance gave birth to efforts at establishing technoscientific control over questions of political procedure. But such efforts have been met with various forms of reflexive engagement that draw out implications and turn design questions back into matters of concern. An emerging informal assessment regime for technologies of participation as yet prevents closure on one dominant global design for democracy beyond the state.

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The emergence of citizen panels as a de facto standard

Cited by 18 publications

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The concept of instrument constituencies: accounting for dynamics and practices of knowing governance

The concept of instrument constituencies: accounting for dynamics and practices of knowing governance

Realizing Instruments: Performativity in Emissions Trading and Citizen Panels

Innovating public participation methods: Technoscientization and reflexive engagement

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