Constitutional Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Innovations

Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter (eds.), Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe, Colchester: ECPR Press, 2016.

16 Pages Posted: 24 Feb 2016 Last revised: 5 May 2018

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Brigitte Geissel

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Social and Political Sciences

Sergiu Gherghina

University of Glasgow - School of Social and Political Sciences

Date Written: February 22, 2016

Abstract

Citizens increasingly obtained the opportunity of consultation and input during the constitutional reform. The variety of these consultation processes leads to several inter-connected question: How did these consultation processes work? What are the effects of these deliberative processes in comparative perspective? Do these effects match with findings on participatory innovations in general? This chapter seeks to provide some answers by embedding constitution reforms through popular involvement in the broader topic of democratic innovations. We start with a discussion of frameworks for the analysis and explain our decision to suggest a new framework. Then we comparatively evaluate the three case studies on constitutional deliberative procedures (Belgium, Iceland, Ireland) referring to input legitimacy, throughput legitimacy and output legitimacy. Finally, we embed the findings into the debate about the effects of democratic innovations in general.

Keywords: constitution, deliberation, democratic innovations, legitimacy

Suggested Citation

Geissel, Brigitte and Gherghina, Sergiu, Constitutional Deliberative Democracy and Democratic Innovations (February 22, 2016). Min Reuchamps and Jane Suiter (eds.), Constitutional Deliberative Democracy in Europe, Colchester: ECPR Press, 2016., Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2736464 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2736464

Brigitte Geissel

Goethe University Frankfurt - Department of Social and Political Sciences ( email )

Department of Social and Political Sciences
Robert Mayer Strasse 5
Frankfurt am Main, 60054
Germany

Sergiu Gherghina (Contact Author)

University of Glasgow - School of Social and Political Sciences ( email )

United Kingdom

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