Across established democracies, citizens express high levels of support for decision making
via referendums. What drives these preferences remains yet unclear. In this article it is …

This article introduces this special issue on Participatory Democracy and Inequality,
identifying both the primary claims made by the modern iteration of participatory democracy …

Public administration is the largest part of the democratic state and a key consideration in
understanding its legitimacy. Despite this, democratic theory is notoriously quiet about public …

While delegation of policymaking authority from citizens to parliament is the most defining
characteristic of representative democracy, public demand for delegating such authority …

What does it mean to design democratic innovation from a deliberative systems
perspective? The demand of the deliberative systems approach that we turn from the single …

Across established democracies, concerns about citizens' dissatisfaction with the way
politics works are regularly voiced in the scholarly and public debate alike. The deficit in …

The notion that democracy is a system is ever present in democratic theory. However, what it
means to think systemically about democracy (as opposed to what it means for a political …

This article explores recent UK government aspirations towards 'open policy making'(OPM).
Against a backdrop of scholarly literatures on power inequalities in policy making, I consider …

The digital transformation affects every part of our societies and everyday lives, including the
processes and structures of our democracies. On the one hand, information and …

Recent years have seen a rapid expansion in empirical research of political process
preferences, but this research has proceeded without a thorough conceptualisation of what …