Australian climate action groups in the deliberative system

Datos Bibliográficos

ID5044586
AutoresChris Riedy (0000-0003-3668-737X, University of Technology Sydney, autor de correspondencia), Jennifer Kent (0000-0002-3051-7698, University of Technology Sydney)
Año2015
Volumen24
Número3
Páginas363-381
Fecha de publicación2015-05-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEnvironmental Politics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09644016.2015.1008235
OpenAlexW2000015257
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas26

A systemic approach to deliberative democracy de-emphasises the role of discrete deliberative experiments involving minipublics. Instead, this systemic perspective focuses attention on the quality of deliberation achieved throughout distributed governance systems. It opens up the possibility that institutions that do not appear deliberative in isolation may have a positive impact on deliberation at a system scale. This systemic perspective is drawn on here to assess the role of climate action groups (CAGs) within Australia’s deliberative system on climate-change response. These self-organised, voluntary groups, made up of like-minded people with a shared concern about climate change, do not meet traditional criteria for advancing deliberation. Unrepresentative and lacking discursive diversity, they nevertheless advanced the quality of public deliberation by bringing new voices and preferences into public deliberation, holding decision makers accountable and acting as trusted information sources for at least some citizens. From a deliberative-systems perspective, self-organised, unrepresentative, but persistent groups such as CAGs may offer more fruitful sites for increasing public deliberation on climate change than temporary minipublics

Climate change · Climate governance · Collective action · Corporate governance · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Economics · Epistemology · Geography · Management · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Computer Science · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Public Administration · Social Acceptance of Renewable Energy · Social Media and Politics · Ecology