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Deliberating foreign policy: perceptions and effects of citizen participation in Germany
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Abstract Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses cit... view more
Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses citizen participation in German foreign policy by comparing deliberative-participatory processes implemented by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU). We draw on recent scholarship in the field of deliberative democracy in order to gain a better understanding how the two ministries understand citizen participation, how they implement these processes, and what effects they have on formal decision-making. Using interviews, participant observation, and document analysis, we investigate two processes of citizen participation in depth. We argue that ministerial understandings of citizen participation determine how they design formats in their respective field. This leads to quite divergent implementations and results of deliberative-participatory formats in the field of foreign policy, depending on whether the AA or the BMU initiates them.... view less
Keywords
political participation; deliberative democracy; foreign policy; environmental policy; decision making process; ministry of foreign affairs; ministry; Federal Republic of Germany
Classification
Political Process, Elections, Political Sociology, Political Culture
Free Keywords
Entscheidungsverfahren; AA; BMU
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 485-502
Journal
German Politics, 30 (2020) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/09644008.2020.1786058
ISSN
1743-8993
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications