Coupling mini-publics to collaborative governance: the case of the Education Reform in the Belgian French Speaking Community
(2018) Seventh edition of the conference BELGIUM: THE STATE OF THE FEDERATION — Location: Leuven (20.December.2018)
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Vrydagh, Julien 
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- Mini-publics are increasingly used as a way to cure the malaise of representative democracy (Newton & Geissel, 2012). Such mini-publics are small scale face-to-face deliberative forums gathering lay citizens to provide decision makers with recommendations on a particular topic. In order to maximize the potential of mini-publics, scholars have explored ways to incorporate these deliberative forums into the policy-making process (Gastil, Ryan, & Smith, 2017). Hitherto, they have, however, overlooked the shift from government to governance (Papadopoulos, 2012a). This new paradigm puts forward a more horizontal and cooperative form of the policy-making process in which various stakeholders are involved through a variety of cooperative schemes. Therein, mini-publics become one additional site of deliberation among others, implying that it interacts with and reports to a variety of new institutional actors. Very few studies have tried to understand how the stakeholders and the participants of these mini-publics perceive the mini-public newcomer in the cooperative schemes and how they deem its contribution to the policy-making process.
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Vrydagh, J., Devillers, S., & Reuchamps, M. (2018). Coupling mini-publics to collaborative governance: the case of the Education Reform in the Belgian French Speaking Community. Seventh edition of the conference BELGIUM: THE STATE OF THE FEDERATION, Leuven. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243504