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Deliberative Democracy and British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly

  • Civil Society and NGO
  • 2010, 8(2), pp.41~70
  • Publisher : The Third Sector Institute
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general > Other Social Science in general

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This article focus on the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly. In 2004,British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly on Electoral Reform recommends their province adopt a new voting system, which they call “BC-STV.” The mandate of the Citizens’ Assembly members was to assess different models for electing members of the Legislative Assembly and to recommend whether a new model should be adopted. In other countries, such a task has been given to politicians or to electoral experts. Instead, British Columbia chose to make history and to give this task to the voters. It’s the first time that a democratic government give the power to review an important public policy to unelected, “ordinary” citizens. The members of the Citizens’ Assembly were appointed by a random selection process. They feel exceptionally honoured to have been given this historic opportunity to serve British Columbians on a matter so central to modern democracy. And the Assembly members demonstrated a quality of citizenship that inspired us all.

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