Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe

Download or read book Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe written by Min Reuchamps and published by ECPR Press. This book was released on 2016-02 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iceland and Ireland have turned to deliberative democracy to reform their constitutions. Estonia, Luxembourg and Romania have also experienced constitutional process in a deliberative mode, and in Belgium, a citizen-led initiative has fostered a wider societal debate about the role and place of citizens in the country's democracy. At the same time, European institutions have introduced different forms of deliberative democracy as a way to reinvolve citizens. These empirical cases are emblematic of a possibly constitutional turn in deliberative democracy in Europe. This book critically assesses these developments, bringing together academics involved in the design of these new forms of constitutional deliberative democracy with the theorists who propagated the ideas.