Deliberative Bureaucracy

Reconciling Democracy’s Trade-off Between Inclusion and Economy

Bibliographic Data

ID6344432
AuthorsJohn Boswell (0000-0002-3018-8791, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK, corresponding author), Jack Corbett (0000-0003-2005-7162, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK)
Year2018
Volume66
Issue3
Pages618-634
Publication date2018-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0032321717723512
OpenAlexW2754249537
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited49

Deliberative democrats have long considered the trade-off between norms of inclusion and efficiency. The latest attempt at reconciliation is the deliberative systems model, which situates and links individual sites of deliberation in their macro context. Yet, critics argue that this move to scale up leaves inclusive practices of citizen deliberation vulnerable. Here, we seek to mitigate these concerns via an unlikely source: bureaucracy. Drawing on the notion of policy feedback, with its attendant focus on how policies (re)make democratic politics, we envision a deliberative bureaucracy where implementation and service delivery are imbued with norms of justification, publicity and, most radically, inclusion. Looking at promising contemporary governance practices, we argue that a deliberative bureaucracy, with the rich public encounters it might foster, can reconcile the desire to scale up deliberative democracy to whole systems with the desire to hold on to the benefits of scaled-down citizen deliberation

Bureaucracy · Context (archaeology · Corporate governance · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Economics · Inclusion (mineral · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Publicity · Social science · Sociology · Community Development and Social Impact · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Media and Politics

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