This podcast is dedicated to the idea of constitutions and constitutional change as a forum for public engagement and democratic innovation. The podcast features interviews with academics and activists from Iceland and many other countries and people who participated in the innovative efforts of 2009 to 2013 to revise the Icelandic constitution.
Democratic Constitutional Design
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This podcast is dedicated to the idea of constitutions and constitutional change as a forum for public engagement and democratic innovation. The podcast features interviews with academics and activists from Iceland and many other countries and people who participated in the innovative efforts of 2009 to 2013 to revise the Icelandic constitution.
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October 7, 2020
Deliberative Poll on the Constitution of Iceland
<p>Sævar Finnbogason talks to Jón Ólafsson and Valgerður Björk Pálsdóttir from the DCD research team about the lessons from the Deliberative Poll on the constitution of Iceland, convened by Icelandic Government, where 230 Randomly selected Icelanders participated in a productive Deliberative meeting. Will the poll influence policy and will Althingi be able to agree on any changes to the constitution? Will the political reality in Iceland and opposition from supporters of the Constitutional Council bill from 2011 prevent changes from succeeding. </p>
March 20, 2020
Participation and long-term decision-making
<p>Is participatory deliberative democracy suited for long term decision-making? Maija Setälä and her colleagues are currently working with our regional government in south-east Finland where the goal is to involve citizens in long term planning for the region. The deliberations involve working with future scenarios and different types of participation including a citizen assembly. Can randomly selected citizens come up with good long-term policies or is that something only elected representatives can do?</p>
March 20, 2020
Citizens review panels to the rescue?
<p>Referendums raise questions about voters’ access to reliable information and considered arguments in this age of social media and polarization. In this episode Sævar Finnbogason talks to professor <strong>Maija Setälä</strong> from the University of Turku, about Citizens Review panels and citizens initiatives. Maija and her colleagues recently carried out an experiment with a citizen’s review panel in Finland, based on the Oregon CIR model. </p>
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