Direction de la Gouvernance publique
Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions
Catching the Deliberative Wave
Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies,
Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy
problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions. They
convene groups of people representing a wide cross-section of society for at least
one full day – and often much longer – to learn, deliberate, and develop collective
recommendations that consider the complexities and compromises required for solving
multifaceted public issues. This "deliberative wave" has been building since the 1980s,
gaining momentum since around 2010. This report has gathered close to 300 representative
deliberative practices to explore trends in such processes, identify different models,
and analyse the trade-offs among different design choices as well as the benefits
and limits of public deliberation. It includes Good Practice Principles for Deliberative
Processes for Public Decision Making, based on comparative empirical evidence gathered
by the OECD and in collaboration with leading practitioners from government, civil
society, and academics. Finally, the report explores the reasons and routes for embedding
deliberative activities into public institutions to give citizens a more permanent
and meaningful role in shaping the policies affecting their lives.
Published on June 10, 2020
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Foreword | |
| Reader’s guide | |
| Executive summary | |
| Introduction: Deliberation and new forms of governance | |
| Models of representative deliberative processes | |
| Key trends | |
| What is a ‘successful’ representative deliberative process for public decision making? Assessing the evidence | |
| Good practice principles for deliberative processes for public decision making | |
| Reimagining democratic institutions: Why and how to embed public deliberation | |
| Other interesting deliberative practices | |
| Conclusion | |
| Overview of existing principles | |
| Methodology | |
| Resources for representative deliberative processes |
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