SubsidieMeestersDesigning Democracy on ´Mars´ and ´Earth´: Exploring Citizens´ Democratic Preferences in a Deliberative and Co-Creative Design
DDME engages citizens in Germany, the U.S., and India to collaboratively explore and reform their democratic preferences through deliberative design and hybrid interactions.
Projectdetails
Introduction
DDME sets up a bottom-up, co-creative, and deliberative design to obtain a deeper understanding of citizens' democratic preferences in two Western countries (Germany and the United States) and one non-Western country (India).
Democratic Preferences
Democratic preferences contain procedural preferences for different governance modes such as:
- Participatory
- Delegative
- Consensual
- Majoritarian forms of democratic governance
Additionally, these preferences include goals and values such as equality or social justice.
Exploration of Ideal Democracy
Based on input and feedback from democratic theorists, DDME explores how citizens imagine ideal democracy (on Mars) and mend real democracy (i.e., how they would reform the political systems they live in (on Earth)). This exploration occurs when citizens have the chance to deliberate, weighing reasons regarding the pros and cons of various conceptions and schemes of democracy in a dialogical setting with their fellow citizens.
Deliberative Field Experiments
The deliberative field experiments will comprise 600-900 representative or maximally diverse citizens and will be run on a hybrid platform combining synchronous and asynchronous modes of interaction.
Analysis of Democratic Preferences
DDME analyses which factors drive different democratic preferences of citizens in the three different countries and which principles and arguments play a role in the opinion and preference formation of citizens' democratic preferences, with a specific eye on opinion and preference change.
Innovative Approach
The project is the first to delegate democratic designing to citizens, adopting a systematic and global approach where citizens, together with democratic theorists, think through advanced theoretical inputs and creatively consider optimal democratic designs.
Financiële details & Tijdlijn
Financiële details
| Subsidiebedrag | € 2.056.149 |
| Totale projectbegroting | € 2.056.149 |
Tijdlijn
| Startdatum | 1-8-2022 |
| Einddatum | 31-7-2027 |
| Subsidiejaar | 2022 |
Partners & Locaties
Projectpartners
- UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGARTpenvoerder
Land(en)
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