Deliberative Democracy, Participation, and OECD Peer Reviews of Environmental Policies

Datos Bibliográficos

ID12470926
AutoresMarkku Lehtonen (0000-0003-2509-1554, University of Sussex, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Volumen27
Número2
Páginas185-200
Fecha de publicación2006-05-18
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Evaluation (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1098-2140 • E-ISSN: 1557-0878
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0198214006288283
OpenAlexW2115104358
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas39

Deliberative democracy has attracted increasing attention in political science and has been suggested as a normative ideal for evaluation. This article analyzes to what extent evaluations carried out in a highly government-driven manner can nevertheless contribute to deliberative democracy. This potential is examined by taking the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s environmental performance reviews as an example of an expert-led evaluative process built on the ideals of representative democracy. The author argues that although they are not participatory, these reviews lay the groundwork for deliberative democracy by “empowering” weaker actors within governments and by improving the factual basis for political debate and decision making. This example suggests that to enhance deliberative democracy, the evaluation process need not be highly inclusive, dialogical, and deliberative but that a broader view is needed, encompassing the indirect impacts of evaluation on power relations and on the knowledge basis on which decision making relies

Citizen journalism · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Dialogical self · Government (linguistics · Ideal (ethics · Normative · Participatory evaluation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Evaluation and Performance Assessment · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Psychology