Product Description: Das Losverfahren blickt zurück auf eine lange politische Geschichte. Es lenkt den Blick auf eine oft vergessene politischen Dimension: Die Herrschaft durch das Volk. Das Losverfahren war mit den Wahlen in sehr unterschiedlichen Kombinationen gekoppelt...read more

Product Description: As our experience regarding the practice of deliberation grows, the position from which we evaluate it, and the criteria of this evaluation, change. This book presents a synthesis of recent research that has brought detailed and robust results...read more

Product Description: Citizen participation is a central component of democratic governance. As participatory schemes have grown in number and gained in social legitimacy over recent years, the research community has analyzed the virtues of participatory policies from several points of view, but usually giving focus to the most successful and well-known grass-roots cases...read more

Through its experiment in participative budgetmaking, Porto Alegre has institutionalized the direct democratic involvement of ordinary citizens in deciding spending priorities. This volume examines the lessons to be learned from this city to renew democratic institutions elsewhere in the world.