Contrasting Views of Citizens’ Assemblies: Stakeholder Perceptions of Public Deliberation on Climate Change
Contrasting Views of Citizens’ Assemblies: Stakeholder Perceptions of Public Deliberation on Climate Change
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公民大会的不同观点：利益相关者对气候变化公共审议的看法
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2021
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P. Devine‐Wright
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Rebecca Sandover;A. Moseley;P. Devine‐Wright
有人认为，随着全球气候变化抗议运动的兴起，近年来出现了一种“新气候政治”。新气候政治的一部分需要通过公民大会等协商民主机制，对以公民为中心的政策制定投入进行试验。然而，人们对气候大会委托人的动机和愿望以及公众对这些机构的看法知之甚少。解决这些问题对于加深理解这些审议机制在气候变化背景下代表什么，参与者如何看待这些机制的合法性、可信性和有用性，以及它们代表的是一种以不同方式处理政治的激进方式，还是一种更渐进的变化，具有重要意义。本文通过对德文郡气候大会先前预期的混合方法研究结果来解决这些差距，该大会是在2019年宣布气候紧急状态后提出的。这项研究将委托和管理公民大会的人的观点与广大公众的观点进行了比较和对照。调查结果表明，举行大会得到广泛支持，但也存在相当大的风险和不确定性。广泛的公众声音对政策的投入被视为有效应对气候变化的必要条件，但人们对确保公民代表性所涉及的实际挑战以及政治家和更广泛的社会是否会接受所需的“艰难选择”持怀疑态度。大会被认为是一种解锁结构变化的手段，也是一种实现大规模行为变化的工具。德文郡气候大会似乎表明了“谨慎的实验”，民主创新被广泛接受，但受到谨慎的限制，只提供了一个“新气候政治”的适度例子，对现有机构的权威挑战最小。
It has been argued that a ‘new climate politics’ has emerged in recent years, in the wake of global climate change protest movements. One part of the new climate politics entails experimentation with citizen-centric input into policy development, via mechanisms of deliberative democracy such as citizens’ assemblies. Yet relatively little is known about the motivations and aspirations of those commissioning climate assemblies or about general public perceptions of these institutions. Addressing these issues is important for increasing understanding of what these deliberative mechanisms represent in the context of climate change, how legitimate, credible and useful they are perceived to be by those involved, and whether they represent a radical way of doing politics differently or a more incremental change. This article addresses these gaps by presenting findings from mixed method research on prior expectations of the Devon Climate Assembly, proposed following the declaration of a climate emergency in 2019. The research compares and contrasts the views of those commissioning and administering the citizens’ assembly, with those of the wider public. Findings indicate widespread support, yet also considerable risk and uncertainty associated with holding the assembly. Enabling input into policy of a broad array of public voices was seen as necessary for effective climate response, yet there was scepticism about the practical challenges involved in ensuring citizen representation, and about whether politicians, and society more generally, would embrace the ‘hard choices’ required. The assembly was diversely represented as a means to unlock structural change, and as an instrumental tool to achieve behaviour change at scale. The Devon Climate Assembly appears to indicate ‘cautious experimentation’ where democratic innovation is widely embraced yet carefully constrained, offering only a modest example of a ‘new climate politics,’ with minimal challenges to the authority of existing institutions.
为什么政治很重要：让民主发挥作用
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2016
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Stoker
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Stoker