Coupling mini-publics to collaborative governance: the case of the Education Reform in the Belgian French Speaking Community

Mini-publics are small face-to-face deliberative forums gathering lay citizens to provide decision makers with recommendations on a particular topic. They are increasingly used as a way to cure the malaise of representative democracy (Newton & Geissel, 2012). In order to maximize their potential, scholars have explored the ways to incorporate these deliberative forums into the policy-making process (Gastil, Ryan, & Smith, 2017). Hitherto, they have however neglected the shift from government to governance (Papadopoulos, 2012a). This new paradigm puts forward a more horizontal and coope... Mehr ...