The difficult integration of mini-publics in collaborative governance: the case of the Education Reform in the Belgian French Speaking Community

Mini-publics are increasingly used as a way to remedy the deficiencies of representative democracy. In order to maximize their potential, scholars have explored the ways to incorporate these deliberative forums into the policy-making process. However, they have neglected the shift from government to governance. This new paradigm puts forward a more horizontal and cooperative form of the policy-making process in which various stakeholders are involved through a variety of cooperative schemes. Therein, mini-public becomes one additional site of deliberation among others, implying that it interac... Mehr ...