Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe. Edited by Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter

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1 Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe Edited by Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter

2 Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter 2016 First published by the ECPR Press in 2016 The ECPR Press is the publishing imprint of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), a scholarly association, which supports and encourages the training, research and cross-national co-operation of political scientists in institutions throughout Europe and beyond. ECPR Press Harbour House Hythe Quay Colchester CO2 8JF United Kingdom All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Typeset by Lapiz Digital Services Printed and bound by Lightning Source British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library HARDBACK ISBN: PAPERBACK ISBN: PDF ISBN: EPUB ISBN: KINDLE ISBN:

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5 Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables Contributors Preface vii ix xiii Chapter One A Constitutional Turn for Deliberative Democracy in Europe? 1 Jane Suiter and Min Reuchamps Chapter Two Participatory Constitutional Deliberation in the Wake of Crisis: The Case of Iceland 15 Eirikur Bergmann Chapter Three The Irish Constitutional Convention: A Case of High Legitimacy? 33 Jane Suiter, David M. Farrell and Clodagh Harris Chapter Four The Macro Political Uptake of the G1000 in Belgium 53 Vincent Jacquet, Jonathan Moskovic, Didier Caluwaerts and Min Reuchamps Chapter Five Constitutional Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Innovations 75 Brigitte Geissel and Sergiu Gherghina Chapter Six How Can Constitutional Reforms Be Deliberative? The Hybrid Legitimacies of Constitutional Deliberative Democracy 93 Julien Talpin Chapter Seven Designing Mini-Publics for Constitutional Deliberative Democracy 109 Kimmo Grönlund

6 vi Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe Chapter Eight Legitimacy without Visibility? On the Role of Mini-Publics in the Democratic System 129 Stefan Rummens Chapter Nine Ideas of Constitutions and Deliberative Democracy: A Conceptual Conclusion 147 John Parkinson Index 169

7 List of Figures and Tables Figures Figure 9.1: Publications on deliberative democracy in Google Scholar, by year 149 Figure 9.2: Interaction of constitutional understandings and deliberative approaches 156 Tables Table 3.1: Citizen-members: age and social class 35 Table 3.2: Outcomes of Irish Constitutional Convention (as of 27 May 2015) 38 Table 3.3: Gender/member composition of the Convention 43 Table 3.4: Gender composition of roundtables 43 Table 4.1: Awareness of the G Table 4.2: Support for the process of the G Table 4.3: Support for results of G Table 5.1: Frameworks and criteria applied in studies evaluating participatory innovations 77 Table 5.2: Framework for evaluating participatory innovations 79 Table 5.3: Empirical evidence of constitutional revisions through deliberation 84 Table 7.1: Comparison of Finnish experiments with mini-publics 120