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Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave

OECD Publishing · 2020

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DOI 10.1787/339306da-en
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2026-09-01

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EstablishedMongolia's 2017 Law on Deliberative Polling requires a Deliberative Poll before Parliament considers constitutional amendments and lets residents petition for one at capital-city and district level.EstablishedGdańsk's local consultation rules (resolution XVI/494/15) name the citizens' panel as a method; 1,000 resident signatures can request one, and with 5,000 the mayor cannot refuse.EstablishedThe Brussels Parliament's December 2019 rules allow deliberative committees of 15 MPs and 45 citizens drawn by lot from residents aged 16 or over; within six months the parliament must publish a report explaining its decisions and follow-up on the recommendations.EstablishedOf the 55 deliberative processes (1986-2019) for which the OECD obtained implementation data, public authorities implemented more than half of the recommendations in 76%, all of them in 36%, and none in 11%.EstablishedMadrid's City Observatory, turned into a body of 49 randomly selected residents by a regulation of 29 January 2019 and empowered to review Decide Madrid proposals, was reverted to a body of politicians and officials in February 2020 after a change of government.