When Citizens Decide: Lessons from Citizen Assemblies on Electoral Reform

By Henk van der Kolk, Patrick Fournier, R. Kenneth Carty, et al.

Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario. Groups of randomly selected ordinary citizens were asked to independently design the next electoral system. In each case, the participants spent almost an entire year learning about electoral systems, consulting the public, deliberating, debating, and ultimately deciding what specific institution should be adopted.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199567840
• ISBN13: 9780199567843
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.2"