From citizens to parliamentarians, and back. A preliminary analysis of the recommendations from the Permanent Citizens’ Dialogue in East Belgium

This paper offers a preliminary analysis based on the results of the Bürgerdialog, the permanent citizens' dialogue, which is the first permanent deliberative mechanism to be set up in a parliament. This permanent citizens' dialogue has indeed been established within a legal framework that provides for a formal process of presentations by citizens of their recommendations and responses by parliamentarians of their possible follow-up. To date, two topics, health care and inclusive education, have gone through the four phases of the permanent citizens' dialogue, via two separate citizens' assem... Mehr ...