Stephen Elstub
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3471019 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Stephen Elstub |
| PRENOMES | Stephen |
| SOBRENOME | Elstub |
| ASSINATURA | ELSTUB S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Newcastle University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4382-5593 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 210 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Democratic innovations in the UK
This article compares the historical trajectories of democratic innovations across space and time in the UK by analysing the development and impact of collaborative governance, participatory budgeting, referendums, and mini-publics. This is an interesting country for longer-term analysis. First, the UK has been considered an inhospitable environment for democratic innovation. Second, it has experienced asymmetrical decentralisation of legislative…
Analysing the Global Assembly’s influence
While there has been a proliferation of climate assemblies in recent years at national and sub-national levels, 2021 saw the world’s first global-scale citizens’ assembly bringing together 100 citizens from across the globe to deliberate about the climate and ecological crisis and present their conclusions at COP26 in Glasgow. The Global Assembly (GA) thus offers a unique chance to examine the opportunities and challenges for a global mini-public…
Climate assemblies and the public
Climate assemblies (CAs) are being increasingly used to engage citizens in climate change policy making. Consequently, their design and operation are focused on optimising their influence on policymakers. Less emphasis is placed on how, and to what extent, CAs influence the wider public. This is an important gap as it has been suggested that CAs could stimulate public deliberation about climate change action and attitudes. Public support could al…
Mini-publics and policy impact analysis
The use of mini-publics to enable some citizens to feed policy recommendations into public policy processes is gaining popularity. However, assessing whether and to what extent mini-publics have policy impact is extremely challenging due to the complexity of policy processes. We make the case for a new approach to analysing mini-public policy impact with respect to an analysis of the journeys made by each mini-public recommendation, with a view t…
Case Study Research
Case study research is widely used in the field of deliberative democracy due to the depth of insight and attention to context that this method provides. This chapter explains why case study research has been integral to deliberative democracy’s development from a normative theory to an established and mature theory guided by significant empirical evidence. This chapter also suggests that as deliberative democracy research moves towards a systemi…
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
The Resilience of Pandemic Digital Deliberation
Quality deliberation is essential for societies to address the challenges presented by the coronavirus pandemic effectively and legitimately. Critics of deliberative and participatory democracy are highly skeptical that most citizens can engage with such complex issues in good circumstances and these are far from ideal circumstances. The need for rapid action and decision-making is a challenge for inclusivity and quality of deliberation. Addition…
Deliberative Quality and Expertise
When addressing socio-scientific wicked problems, there is a need to negotiate across and through multiple modes of evidence, particularly technical expertise and local knowledge. Democratic innovations, such as deliberative citizens’ juries, have been proposed as a means of managing these tensions and as a way of creating representative, fairer decision making. But there are questions around participatory processes, the utilization of expertise,…
Democratic Innovation in the Scottish Parliament
When the Scottish Parliament was established the intention of the founders was to make it a more innovative, participatory, and deliberative legislature than the UK had experienced before. Research suggests that attempts to achieve these aspirations were short-lived. Recently, a Commission on Parliamentary Reform (2017) was established to add fresh impetus to this mission. Its recommendations included the running of inhouse mini-publics to suppor…
Experts and evidence in deliberation
Experts hold a prominent position in guiding and shaping policy-making; however, the nature of expert input to decision-making is a topic of public debate. A key aspect of deliberative processes such as citizens’ juries is the provision of information to participants, usually from expert witnesses. However, there is currently little guidance on some of the challenges that organisers and advocates of citizens’ juries must consider regarding expert…
Deliberative qualities in televised election debates
Concerns are raised repeatedly about the quality of televised debates. Both a country’s electoral system and the presence of populist candidates have been argued to influence the deliberative qualities of these debates. By using an extended version of the Discourse Quality Index, this study conducts a content analysis of 12 televised election debates in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2015. Against expectations, r…
Coronavirus and Representative Democracy
Representative democracy was already under considerable strain due to declining levels of trust, the rise of authoritarian populism and increases in inequality, and then came the global pandemic. W
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
This chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through purposive institutional design. However, democratic innovations are a complement, rather than a substitute, for existing institutions, with which they interact in complex ways. The chapter focuses on the mechanisms through which …
Defining and typologising democratic innovations
This chapter is based on a scoping review, which finds that there is little agreement about what should be classified as ‘democratic innovations’ and a general lack of clarity and precision in the use of the term, which is causing concept stretching and hindering understanding and analysis. This is in part due to the limitations of the existing definitions and typologies. To overcome this, a morphological analysis is conducted to develop a set of…
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Between Diversity, Representation and ‘Best Evidence
Select committees play an important role in scrutinising government policy. They have come under increasing pressure to seek evidence for their inquiries—including both formal and informal evidence—from a wider range of stakeholders. Two particular pressures can be observed within this trend. First, committees are expected to show commitment to hearing from a more diverse set of stakeholders. The second pressure relates to the representativeness …
Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice
Rating the debates
Deliberative Democracy - Issues and Cases
A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy
Editors' introduction to the interview: Stephen Elstub articulates that deliberative democracy, as a theory, can be seen as having gone through various distinct generations. The first generation was a period where the normative values and the justifications for deliberative democracy were set out. This prompted criticism from difference democrats who saw the exclusion of other forms of communication by the reification of reason in deliberation as…
The Possibility of Critical Mini-Publics
Fifty years ago, democratic theory was largely devoid of normative impulse, and was dominated by the realpolitik and positivist approaches of competitive elitism and rational and social choice theory. Whilst the rise of participatory democratic theory in the 1970s brought a halt to this dominance, it was the arrival of deliberative democracy in the 1980s and 1990s that cemented the normative revival in democratic theory. However, as deliberative …
Deliberative Democracy
Addresses the problems with deliberative democracy – and potential solutions – in the context of empirical evidence GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748643486','ISBN:9780748643493','ISBN:9780748643509','ISBN:9780748686506']); Deliberative Democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that s…
Democratising the non-profit sector
This article argues that wherever non-profit organisations fulfil significant publicly funded service delivery roles, they must have an internal democratic structure conducive to ensuring that services are legitimate, accountable and of a high effectiveness and quality. Successive governments in the United Kingdom have adopted strategies that have led to increasing levels of isomorphism, with hierarchical, bureaucratic and private sector governan…
Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Provides an overview of the development of deliberative and participatory democracy in the UK. Critically analyses the success of consecutive UK national governments in fostering deliberative and participatory processes. Surveys the development of deliberative and participatory processes in the UK at sub-national and local level. Provides a starting point for comparative politics on deliberative and …
Deliberative Pragmatic Equilibrium Review
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Presents a framework for comparing institutions and their ability to enact various norms of deliberative democracy across various stages of the policy process and different levels of governance. Specifically contextualises this framework for application in the UK. A range of institutional mechanisms have been advocated to ensure the practical application of deliberative democracy, and these are now b…
The Third Generation of Deliberative Democracy
The article argues that deliberative democracy has now entered a third generation, to which the three recent books considered here contribute. The first generation included the normative assertions of Habermas and Rawls. The second generation involved the fusing of these two first generationalists, and reconciling them with features of social complexity. The second generation has rendered deliberative democracy more practically achievable, and th…
The Possibility of Critical Mini-Publics
Fifty years ago, democratic theory was largely devoid of normative impulse, and was dominated by the realpolitik and positivist approaches of competitive elitism and rational and social choice theory. Whilst the rise of participatory democratic theory in the 1970s brought a halt to this dominance, it was the arrival of deliberative democracy in the 1980s and 1990s that cemented the normative revival in democratic theory. However, as deliberative …
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy
Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy. It offers thirty-one different methods that scholars use for theorizing, measuring, exploring, or applying deliberative democracy. Each chapter presents one method by explaining its utility in deliberative democracy research and providing guidance on its application by drawing on examples from prev…
Experts and evidence in deliberation
Experts hold a prominent position in guiding and shaping policy-making; however, the nature of expert input to decision-making is a topic of public debate. A key aspect of deliberative processes such as citizens’ juries is the provision of information to participants, usually from expert witnesses. However, there is currently little guidance on some of the challenges that organisers and advocates of citizens’ juries must consider regarding expert…
Between Diversity, Representation and ‘Best Evidence
Select committees play an important role in scrutinising government policy. They have come under increasing pressure to seek evidence for their inquiries—including both formal and informal evidence—from a wider range of stakeholders. Two particular pressures can be observed within this trend. First, committees are expected to show commitment to hearing from a more diverse set of stakeholders. The second pressure relates to the representativeness …
Deliberative qualities in televised election debates
Concerns are raised repeatedly about the quality of televised debates. Both a country’s electoral system and the presence of populist candidates have been argued to influence the deliberative qualities of these debates. By using an extended version of the Discourse Quality Index, this study conducts a content analysis of 12 televised election debates in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2015. Against expectations, r…
Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Provides an overview of the development of deliberative and participatory democracy in the UK. Critically analyses the success of consecutive UK national governments in fostering deliberative and participatory processes. Surveys the development of deliberative and participatory processes in the UK at sub-national and local level. Provides a starting point for comparative politics on deliberative and …
A double-edged sword
As the theory of deliberative democracy becomes increasingly popular, it also becomes an increasingly diverse and flexible theory. This diversity could be a double edged sword; on the one hand this dexterity enables deliberative democracy to become more engrossing, comprehensive and relevant to more and more democratic, philosophical and practical issues. On the other hand deliberative democracy can start to be everything to everyone and lose an …
Deliberative Pragmatic Equilibrium Review
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Presents a framework for comparing institutions and their ability to enact various norms of deliberative democracy across various stages of the policy process and different levels of governance. Specifically contextualises this framework for application in the UK. A range of institutional mechanisms have been advocated to ensure the practical application of deliberative democracy, and these are now b…
Linking Micro Deliberative Democracy and Decision‐making
The paper argues that decision‐making is central to deliberative democracy, especially in its micro institutional form. However, distinct trade‐offs between theory and practice are required to ensure that this link is present. These trade‐offs also vary depending on whether the forums are based on sortition or partisanship. The paper locates the trade‐offs at the various decision‐making stages between theory and practice in a partisan citizen for…
Weber's Dilemma and a Dualist Model of Deliberative and Associational Democracy
Rating the debates
A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy
Editors' introduction to the interview: Stephen Elstub articulates that deliberative democracy, as a theory, can be seen as having gone through various distinct generations. The first generation was a period where the normative values and the justifications for deliberative democracy were set out. This prompted criticism from difference democrats who saw the exclusion of other forms of communication by the reification of reason in deliberation as…
Towards an Inclusive Social Policy for the UK
In western capitalist societies the state has become increasingly criticized for its inadequacy as a mechanism for distributing welfare inclusively. In particular, it has been criticized for its lack of flexibility in meeting the needs of increasingly plural populations, and for being too distant to enable service users to participate in the meeting of their welfare needs. Consequently, in many countries, including the United Kingdom, voluntary a…
Analysing the Global Assembly’s influence
While there has been a proliferation of climate assemblies in recent years at national and sub-national levels, 2021 saw the world’s first global-scale citizens’ assembly bringing together 100 citizens from across the globe to deliberate about the climate and ecological crisis and present their conclusions at COP26 in Glasgow. The Global Assembly (GA) thus offers a unique chance to examine the opportunities and challenges for a global mini-public…
Democratic Innovation in the Scottish Parliament
When the Scottish Parliament was established the intention of the founders was to make it a more innovative, participatory, and deliberative legislature than the UK had experienced before. Research suggests that attempts to achieve these aspirations were short-lived. Recently, a Commission on Parliamentary Reform (2017) was established to add fresh impetus to this mission. Its recommendations included the running of inhouse mini-publics to suppor…
Democratising the non-profit sector
This article argues that wherever non-profit organisations fulfil significant publicly funded service delivery roles, they must have an internal democratic structure conducive to ensuring that services are legitimate, accountable and of a high effectiveness and quality. Successive governments in the United Kingdom have adopted strategies that have led to increasing levels of isomorphism, with hierarchical, bureaucratic and private sector governan…
Democracy in Theory and Practice
1. Democracy in Theory and Practice Stephen Elstub, University of the West of Scotland 2. Complex Legitimacy in Compound Polities: The EU as Example Veit Bader, University of Amsterdam 3. Democratic Theory and Practice in Deeply Divided Societies Ian O'Flynn, Newcastle University 4. A Tension Between Ideal and Practice: Re-evaluation of Micro and Macro Models of Deliberation Zsuzsanna Chappell, London School of Economics 5. Linking Micro Delibera…
Overcoming Complexity
Research Article| January 01 2007 Overcoming Complexity: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy through Secondary Associations Stephen Elstub Stephen Elstub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 14–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Elstub; Overcoming Complexity: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy throu…
Mini-publics and policy impact analysis
The use of mini-publics to enable some citizens to feed policy recommendations into public policy processes is gaining popularity. However, assessing whether and to what extent mini-publics have policy impact is extremely challenging due to the complexity of policy processes. We make the case for a new approach to analysing mini-public policy impact with respect to an analysis of the journeys made by each mini-public recommendation, with a view t…
Towards an Inclusive Social Policy for the UK
In western capitalist societies the state has become increasingly criticized for its inadequacy as a mechanism for distributing welfare inclusively. In particular, it has been criticized for its lack of flexibility in meeting the needs of increasingly plural populations, and for being too distant to enable service users to participate in the meeting of their welfare needs. Consequently, in many countries, including the United Kingdom, voluntary a…
A double-edged sword
As the theory of deliberative democracy becomes increasingly popular, it also becomes an increasingly diverse and flexible theory. This diversity could be a double edged sword; on the one hand this dexterity enables deliberative democracy to become more engrossing, comprehensive and relevant to more and more democratic, philosophical and practical issues. On the other hand deliberative democracy can start to be everything to everyone and lose an …
Overcoming Complexity
Research Article| January 01 2007 Overcoming Complexity: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy through Secondary Associations Stephen Elstub Stephen Elstub Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2007) 16 (1): 14–22. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711246 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Elstub; Overcoming Complexity: Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy throu…
Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy
GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748627394');In an era where citizens of liberal democracies are becoming increasingly disillusioned, dissatisfied and disenfranchised by the dominant political institutions and decision-making processes in these polities, new ideas of how to deepen democracy, re-engage citizens and enhance decision-making legitimacy are required.This book suggests that a combination of deliberative democracy and associationa…
Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy
Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discourses in democracy. This work looks at the key debates on justification and institutionalisation occurring within one of the most vital of contemporary democratic theories.
Weber's Dilemma and a Dualist Model of Deliberative and Associational Democracy
Democracy in Theory and Practice
1. Democracy in Theory and Practice Stephen Elstub, University of the West of Scotland 2. Complex Legitimacy in Compound Polities: The EU as Example Veit Bader, University of Amsterdam 3. Democratic Theory and Practice in Deeply Divided Societies Ian O'Flynn, Newcastle University 4. A Tension Between Ideal and Practice: Re-evaluation of Micro and Macro Models of Deliberation Zsuzsanna Chappell, London School of Economics 5. Linking Micro Delibera…
Linking Micro Deliberative Democracy and Decision‐making
The paper argues that decision‐making is central to deliberative democracy, especially in its micro institutional form. However, distinct trade‐offs between theory and practice are required to ensure that this link is present. These trade‐offs also vary depending on whether the forums are based on sortition or partisanship. The paper locates the trade‐offs at the various decision‐making stages between theory and practice in a partisan citizen for…
The Third Generation of Deliberative Democracy
The article argues that deliberative democracy has now entered a third generation, to which the three recent books considered here contribute. The first generation included the normative assertions of Habermas and Rawls. The second generation involved the fusing of these two first generationalists, and reconciling them with features of social complexity. The second generation has rendered deliberative democracy more practically achievable, and th…
Governing modern societies
Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Provides an overview of the development of deliberative and participatory democracy in the UK. Critically analyses the success of consecutive UK national governments in fostering deliberative and participatory processes. Surveys the development of deliberative and participatory processes in the UK at sub-national and local level. Provides a starting point for comparative politics on deliberative and …
Deliberative Pragmatic Equilibrium Review
Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Presents a framework for comparing institutions and their ability to enact various norms of deliberative democracy across various stages of the policy process and different levels of governance. Specifically contextualises this framework for application in the UK. A range of institutional mechanisms have been advocated to ensure the practical application of deliberative democracy, and these are now b…
Deliberative Democracy
Addresses the problems with deliberative democracy – and potential solutions – in the context of empirical evidence GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748643486','ISBN:9780748643493','ISBN:9780748643509','ISBN:9780748686506']); Deliberative Democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that s…
Democratising the non-profit sector
This article argues that wherever non-profit organisations fulfil significant publicly funded service delivery roles, they must have an internal democratic structure conducive to ensuring that services are legitimate, accountable and of a high effectiveness and quality. Successive governments in the United Kingdom have adopted strategies that have led to increasing levels of isomorphism, with hierarchical, bureaucratic and private sector governan…
Deliberative Democracy - Issues and Cases
A Genealogy of Deliberative Democracy
Editors' introduction to the interview: Stephen Elstub articulates that deliberative democracy, as a theory, can be seen as having gone through various distinct generations. The first generation was a period where the normative values and the justifications for deliberative democracy were set out. This prompted criticism from difference democrats who saw the exclusion of other forms of communication by the reification of reason in deliberation as…
The Possibility of Critical Mini-Publics
Fifty years ago, democratic theory was largely devoid of normative impulse, and was dominated by the realpolitik and positivist approaches of competitive elitism and rational and social choice theory. Whilst the rise of participatory democratic theory in the 1970s brought a halt to this dominance, it was the arrival of deliberative democracy in the 1980s and 1990s that cemented the normative revival in democratic theory. However, as deliberative …
Rating the debates
Deliberative Systems in Theory and Practice
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
This chapter situates democratic innovation within broader processes of institutional change in public administration and develops the argument that they have vulnerable potential to act as a democratising force, through purposive institutional design. However, democratic innovations are a complement, rather than a substitute, for existing institutions, with which they interact in complex ways. The chapter focuses on the mechanisms through which …
Defining and typologising democratic innovations
This chapter is based on a scoping review, which finds that there is little agreement about what should be classified as ‘democratic innovations’ and a general lack of clarity and precision in the use of the term, which is causing concept stretching and hindering understanding and analysis. This is in part due to the limitations of the existing definitions and typologies. To overcome this, a morphological analysis is conducted to develop a set of…
Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance
Between Diversity, Representation and ‘Best Evidence
Select committees play an important role in scrutinising government policy. They have come under increasing pressure to seek evidence for their inquiries—including both formal and informal evidence—from a wider range of stakeholders. Two particular pressures can be observed within this trend. First, committees are expected to show commitment to hearing from a more diverse set of stakeholders. The second pressure relates to the representativeness …
Experts and evidence in deliberation
Experts hold a prominent position in guiding and shaping policy-making; however, the nature of expert input to decision-making is a topic of public debate. A key aspect of deliberative processes such as citizens’ juries is the provision of information to participants, usually from expert witnesses. However, there is currently little guidance on some of the challenges that organisers and advocates of citizens’ juries must consider regarding expert…
Deliberative qualities in televised election debates
Concerns are raised repeatedly about the quality of televised debates. Both a country’s electoral system and the presence of populist candidates have been argued to influence the deliberative qualities of these debates. By using an extended version of the Discourse Quality Index, this study conducts a content analysis of 12 televised election debates in Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom between 2009 and 2015. Against expectations, r…
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