When researchers become designers: Critical feedback from our role in designing the G1000, the Permanent Citizen Dialogue and the Deliberative Committees in Belgium

Researchers may embody diverse roles in the development and analysis of democratic innovations. Based on three Belgian case studies (the G1000, the Permanent Citizen Dialogue and the Deliberative Committees) and more specifically on the reflections of three researchers (the authors of the present paper) who embodied mixed roles in the development and analysis of these processes, this paper sheds light on the motivations behind this blurring of lines between the traditional position of researchers as analysts and their new roles as advocates, advisers, designers and organizers. It also analyzes... Mehr ...