From citizens to parliamentarians, and back. A preliminary analysis of the recommendations from the Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in East Belgium

Gebauer, Rebecca;Sautter, Ann-Mireille;Reuchamps, Min
(2022) Workshop ‘Creating Change through Participation and Deliberation’ — Location: Goethe Universität Frankfurt (29.November.2022)

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This paper offers a preliminary analysis based on the results of the Bürgerdialog, the permanent citizens' dialogue, which is the first permanent deliberative mechanism to be set up in a parliament. This permanent citizens' dialogue has indeed been established within a legal framework that provides for a formal process of presentations by citizens of their recommendations and responses by parliamentarians of their possible follow-up. To date, two topics, health care and inclusive education, have gone through the four phases of the permanent citizens' dialogue, via two separate citizens' assemblies. This paper reviews the four phases of these two citizens' assemblies and analyses the trajectory of each recommendation. In doing so, the paper explores the characteristics that make certain recommendations more likely to be fully implemented or at least carefully considered and, most importantly, how citizen participation in legislation changes the dynamics of formal law-making.
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Gebauer, R., Sautter, A.-M., & Reuchamps, M. (2022). From citizens to parliamentarians, and back. A preliminary analysis of the recommendations from the Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in East Belgium. Workshop ‘Creating Change through Participation and Deliberation’, Goethe Universität Frankfurt. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/248584