Chairs

Stephen Elstub and OIiver Escobar (co-editors of the Handbook)

Panel

Kate Wimpress, Co-convener of the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland

Kaela Scott, Head of Democratic Innovation at Involve

Ali Stoddart, Public Participation Specialist at the Scottish Parliament

The Handbook of Democratic Innovation and Governance, edited by Stephen Elstub and Oliver Escobar, comes to light ten years after seminal work by Graham Smith galvanised this field of theory and practice. Democracies are currently undergoing a period of both challenge and renewal.Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. This Handbook, featuring 38 chapters by 60 authors, advances understanding of democratic innovations by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. It covers different types of democratic innovations; their potential to combat current problems with democracy; the various actors involved; their use in different areas of policy and governance; their application in different parts of the world; and the methods used to research them. The Handbook therefore offers a comprehensive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice.

This roundtable will bring the editors in conversation with practitioners are the frontline of democratic innovation in Scotland. The session will explore key issues in the current development of democratic innovations internationally, as well as offer critical reflections from people advancing the field in policy and practice.

The webinar is part of a series organised by the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group. The full programme can be found here https://deliberativehub.wordpress.com/

All webinars will be held on Zoom. We’ll email you the link when you register.