A new BRIDGE publication is out!

Tetiana Lukeria and Oleksandra Keudel, researchers of the BRIDGE project, present a policy brief on deliberation — an approach that enables communities to make decisions through informed and balanced discussion, rather than under pressure from vocal minorities.

The publication explores:

• what deliberation is, how it differs from conventional forms of public participation, and why it matters for democratic decision-making
• how mini-publics function and how random and stratified sampling enables representation across key social characteristics
• when different deliberative tools are most appropriate — including citizens’ juries, citizens’ assemblies, and deliberative polling
• which risks can undermine deliberative processes — including deliberation-washing, tokenism, neglect of social context, and the inappropriate choice of format

If you are interested in forms of public participation capable of constructively addressing diverse and sometimes conflicting interests, we invite you to read and discuss the brief.

Read the full: https://zenodo.org/records/19236967

The BRIDGE project is implemented by Kyiv School of Economics (Ukraine), Erasmus University Rotterdam (the Netherlands), the Technical University of Berlin (Germany), the University of Tartu (Estonia), and the Center for Innovation Development (Ukraine), and is funded by the European Union under the Horizon Europe program. Any related publications reflect only the views of the project.