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But Is It for Real? The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly as a Model of State-Sponsored Citizen Empowerment

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  • Amy Lang

    (Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, alang@ssc.wisc.edu)

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Emerging forms of empowered participatory governance have generated considerable scholarly excitement, but critics continue to ask if such initiatives are “for real†: Are participatory governance processes sufficiently independent? Do citizen participants make good policy choices? An in-depth look at the case of the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform suggests that real citizen empowerment depends on both the institutional constraints of the participa-tory setting and how citizen interests and arguments for policy outcomes crystallize over the course of a participatory process.

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  • Amy Lang, 2007. "But Is It for Real? The British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly as a Model of State-Sponsored Citizen Empowerment," Politics & Society, , vol. 35(1), pages 35-70, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:polsoc:v:35:y:2007:i:1:p:35-70
    DOI: 10.1177/0032329206297147
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    1. Nicole Curato & Marit Böker, 2016. "Linking mini-publics to the deliberative system: a research agenda," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 49(2), pages 173-190, June.

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