Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter 2016
First published by the ECPR Press in 2016
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List of Figures and Tables
Figures
Figure 9.1: Publications on deliberative democracy in Google Scholar, by year
Figure 9.2: Interaction of constitutional understandings and deliberative approaches
Tables
Table 3.1: Citizen-members: age and social class
Table 3.2: Outcomes of Irish Constitutional Convention (as of 27 May 2015)
Table 3.3: Gender/member composition of the Convention
Table 3.4: Gender composition of roundtables
Table 4.1: Awareness of the G1000
Table 4.2: Support for the process of the G1000
Table 4.3: Support for results of G1000
Table 5.1: Frameworks and criteria applied in studies evaluating participatory innovations
Table 5.2: Framework for evaluating participatory innovations
Table 5.3: Empirical evidence of constitutional revisions through deliberation
Table 7.1: Comparison of Finnish experiments with mini-publics
Contributors
The authors of this book are researchers who have strong records of academic publications on deliberative democracy but also have all been closely involved in the organisation of deliberative initiatives dealing with constitutional reforms.
Eirikur Bergmann is Professor of Politics and Director of the Centre for European Studies at Bifrost University in Iceland. He was also a member of Icelands Constitutional Council, which delivered a bill to Parliament for a new constitution. His research interests within the field of international politics can be positioned in the intersection of European integration politics and international political economy. In that context, he also focuses on nationalism and identity politics. A further interest is within the field of constitutional politics. He has recently published Iceland and the International Financial Crisis: Boom, bust & recovery (London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
Didier Caluwaerts is a professor of political science at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. His book Confrontation and Communication: Deliberative democracy in divided Belgium (Peter Lang, 2012) won the 2013 ECPR Jean Blondel award. He has published in Acta Politica, Ethnopolitics, Politics, Res Publica, European Political Science Review, Government & Opposition, Journal of Elections, Public Opinion & Parties, Religion, State & Society, Journal of Public Deliberation and West European Politics .
David Farrell holds the Chair of Politics at University College Dublin. A specialist in parties, electoral systems and representation, Professor Farrells most recent book was the award-winning Political Parties and Democratic Linkage , published by Oxford University Press in 2011. He was the research director of the Irish Constitutional Convention.
Brigitte Geissel , Goethe University Frankfurt a.M., is Professor of Political Science and Political Sociology, Head of the Research Unit Democratic Innovations and Speaker of the ECPR Standing Group Democratic Innovations. She held fellowships, research and teaching positions at various universities and institutes, such as Harvard Kennedy School (USA); Social Science Research Centre, Berlin; Centre of Excellence on Democracy at bo Akademi (Finland); the Universities of Muenster, Berlin, and Illinois (USA) as well as the Vietnamese German University, Saigon (Vietnam). Her research interests include democratic innovations, new forms of governance (European Union, national, subnational), political actors (new social movements, associations, civil society, parties, political elites, citizens) and her recent publications have appeared in Comparative Sociology, West European Politics and European Journal of Political Research .
