The potential of collaborative democracy
Additional information
Authors
Type
Book chapter
Year
2022
Language
English
Abstract
The chapter discusses the concept of collaborative democracy, intended as a possible innovation of modern representative democracy in response to some of the changes affecting its health and functionality in the 21st century. Such changes include the conditions of political and interest representation, the growing fragmentation of society, the crisis within the traditional players of mass democracy, and the growing distrust towards political institutions, among other factors. Within this framework, assuming neo-institutionalist and neopluralist premises, collaborative democracy is presented as an idealtypical model of democracy in which policymaking processes are open and specifically designed to enable interest groups and citizens to collaborate with policymakers along the whole policy cycle, fulfilling the potential of the processes in terms of deliberative quality, collective intelligence and legitimacy.
Book
Democracy and Disintermediation. A Dangerous Relationship
Publisher
EDUCatt
Pages (or article number)
59-83
