Institutionalizing citizens’ assemblies in Belgium
(2025) Handbook of Participatory Democracy — ISBN: [9781035317271], accepted/in-press
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- All over the world, initiatives to institutionalize deliberative democracy, particularly in the form of citizens’ assemblies, are springing up, driven by a multitude of promises. Faced with the many perils that threaten them, some are rapidly dying out, while others are gaining in scope and scale. Belgium, a small country in the heart of Europe, provides a perfect illustration of the process of institutionalizing citizens’ assemblies. In this country, four parliaments have institutionalized permanent citizens’ assemblies in different formats that this article briefly describes.
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Reuchamps, M. (2025). Institutionalizing citizens’ assemblies in Belgium. In Lionel Cordier and Yves Sintomer (eds.) (ed.), Handbook of Participatory Democracy. Edward Elgar. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243433