Deepening Democracy: New Initiatives in Public Participation
A one day workshop on democratic, inclusive process for policy and decision making
This page contains information from the Deepening Democracy workshop, which was hosted by the Bioethics Council Secretariat on Monday 28 May 2007 with the assistance of Network PR.
The workshop was run by Dr Lyn Carson and Anne Pattillo and was attended by 35 people from central and local government, non-governmental organisations, business, crown research institutes and universities.
“Exploring powerful engagement methods: deliberative designs” by Lyn Carson
- The following video will probably require a broadband connection for satisfactory viewing.
- Part 1 (32min 11sec)
Introduction; the current relationship between governments and citizens; ways of engaging with citizens; random selection, deliberation and democracy - Part 2 (6min 55sec)
Open discussion about the democratic experiences of participants - Part 3 (15min 40sec)
21st century town meeting; key ingredients of democratic, deliberative processes - Part 4 (14min 37sec)
Pseudo democracy; use of participatory processes in Australia and elsewhere - Part 5 (20min 26sec)
British Columbia’s citizens’ assembly on electoral reform; Australia’s Citizen Council for constitutional reform; introducing small-scale methods - Part 6 (29min 23sec)
Small-scale methods; evaluation is critical; summary quiz
- Part 1 (32min 11sec)
- PowerPoint presentation (PPT, 1.1 MB)
“Everyday democracy – New Zealand Perspectives” by Anne Pattillo
Additional workshop information
- Building Bridges: From Community Consultation to Community Engagement (PDF, 2.7 MB)
- The Evaluation Criteria of Rowe and Frewer (2000) in 'Working Together: Involving Community and Stakeholders in Decision-Making'
- Table 1 and Table 3 from Rowe, Marsh & Frewer (2004), 'Evaluation of a deliberative conference' (PDF, 207 KB)
- Section 3.3, Evaluate, from Book 2 Effective Engagement: the engagement planning workbook (PDF, 4 MB)
- An inventory of democratic deliberative processes in Australia (PDF, 153 KB)
Last updated: 13 January 2010
