Designing permanent deliberative democracy: The Ostbelgien Modell in Belgium

Reuchamps, Min
(2019) Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar — Location: University of Canberra, Canberra (18.June.2019)

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Around the world, deliberative democracy is on the rise and is being implemented in real politics. In Belgium, the G1000, a citizen-led experiment, set deliberative democracy on the political agenda. In this wake, all parliaments of the country have initiated deliberative mini-publics. More recently the Ostbelgien modell was fostered; that is the Parliament of the German-speaking community has enacted a permanent system of deliberative democracy that will start in September 2019: a randomly selected body of 24 citizens will work next to the existing elected parliament made of 25 MPs. These democratic innovations set the pace for a renewal of democratic dynamics in practice.
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Reuchamps, M. (2019). Designing permanent deliberative democracy: The Ostbelgien Modell in Belgium. Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance Seminar, University of Canberra, Canberra. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243497