Goethe-Universität — Participatory Innovations, Background & Effects

Research Unit 'Democratic Innovations'

Participatory Innovations, Background & Effects

The unit examines a variety of democratic innovations including their background and effects. Currently, we experience a boom of these new practices fostering the involvement of citizens and civil society. Our research encompasses the breadth of this burgeoning phenomenon, examining various innovations, such as direct democratic and dialogue-oriented procedures. We investigate the background conditions for these innovations and scrutinize their effects.

	(New) Political Representative Claims: A Global View (France, Germany, Brazil, India, China) Project Coordinators for Germany: Prof. Dr. Brigitte Geißel and Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer Team: Petra Guasti, Viola Joschko Timeframe: April 2016 – March 2019 Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation) und ANR Further Information
	Inequality and Direct Democracy Timeframe: 2017 - 2020 Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation) Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Anna Krämling, Lars Paulus, Amelie Buck Further Information
	Impacts of Dialogoriented Participatory Procedure - Metaanalytical Pilotstudy Timeframe: 2014 - 2016 Funding: DFG (German Research Foundation) Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Pamela Hess, Marco Brehme Further Information
	Elections Experiment: City of Filderstadt Themis-Experiment Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Johnathan Rinne, Viola Joschko, Petra Guasti Further Information
	Participation in Change - Our Democracy between Voting, Participating an Deciding Timeframe: 2012 - 2014 Funding: Bertelsmann Foundation Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Johnathan Rinne Further Information (PDF)
	Evaluation of the Citizen Assembly on Democracy (2019) Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Rikki Dean, Stefan Jung, Bruno Wipfler https://demokratie.buergerrat.de/dokumentation/evaluationsbericht/
	Scientific Evaluation of Participatory Budgeting in Frankfurt/Main Timeframe: 2011 - 2014 Funding: City of Frankfurt Leader: Brigitte Geißel Team: Marco Brehme, Alma Kolleck, Martina Neunecker Further Information (pdf)

Participatory Innovations, Background & Effects

(New) Political Representative Claims: A Global View (France, Germany, Brazil, India, China)

Inequality and Direct Democracy

Impacts of Dialogoriented Participatory Procedure - Metaanalytical Pilotstudy

Elections Experiment: City of Filderstadt

Participation in Change - Our Democracy between Voting, Participating an Deciding

Evaluation of the Citizen Assembly on Democracy (2019)

Scientific Evaluation of Participatory Budgeting in Frankfurt/Main