Institutionalizing citizens’ assemblies in Belgium

Reuchamps, Min
(2024) Workshop for the Handbook of Participatory Democracy, Elgar Handbooks, edited by Lionel Cordier and Yves Sintomer — Location: Zoom (13.September.2024)

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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. (2024). Institutionalizing citizens’ assemblies in Belgium. Workshop for the Handbook of Participatory Democracy, Elgar Handbooks, edited by Lionel Cordier and Yves Sintomer, Zoom. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/243838