Integrating citizen deliberation into climate governance: Lessons on robust design from six climate assemblies

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Boswell, John; Dean, Rikki; Smith, Graham
• 署名单位: University of Southampton; Goethe University Frankfurt; University of Westminster
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/padm.12883
• 发表日期: 2023
• 页码: 182-200
• 关键词: mini-publics; PARTICIPATION

摘要

Recent years have seen a wave of national climate assemblies, which bring together randomly-selected citizens to deliberate and make recommendations on aspects of the climate crisis. Assessments of the legitimacy of these interventions and their capacity to improve climate governance have focused on their internal design characteristics, but the fundamental question of how they are integrated into complex constellations of political and policy institutions is underexplored. This article constructs a framework for understanding their integrative design characteristics, drawing on recent work on robust governance. The framework is used to explore the connection of six national-level climate assemblies with political institutions, public debate, and civil society. Our findings highlight significant variety in the integrative design of these climate assemblies. This variety challenges the view of assemblies as a standardized object with predictable effects on legitimacy and governance capacity, while also refining deliberative systems theory's highly abstracted conceptions of integration and impact.