Evaluation Guidelines for Representative Deliberative Processes

Annex A. Further information resources

Representative deliberative processes

• OECD (2020a), Innovative Citizen Participation and New Democratic Institutions: Catching the Deliberative Wave, https://doi.org/10.1787/339306da-en.

• OECD (2021), Eight Ways to Institutionalise Deliberative Democracy, OECD Publishing, Paris.

• UN Democracy Fund and newDemocracy Foundation (2019) Handbook on Democracy Beyond Elections.

  Impact and long-term effect evaluation

• Gastil, J., Knobloch, K., Reedy, J., Henkels, M., & Cramer, K. (2018). Assessing the electoral impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review. American Politics Research, 46, 534–563. 

• Knobloch, K. R., Barthel, M., & Gastil, J. (2019). Emanating effects: The impact of the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review on voters’ political efficacy. Political Studies, 68, 426-445.  https://doi.org/10.1177/0032321719852254

• Felicetti, A., Niemeyer, S., & Curato, N. (2016). Improving deliberative participation: Connecting mini-publics to deliberative systems. European Political Science Review, 8(3), 427–448. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755773915000119

• Goodin, R. E., & Dryzek, J. S. (2006). Deliberative Impacts: The Macro-Political Uptake of Mini-Publics. Politics & Society, 34(2), 219–244. https://doi.org/10.1177/0032329206288152

• Jacquet, V., & Does, R. van der. (2020). The Consequences of Deliberative Minipublics: Systematic Overview, Conceptual Gaps, and New Directions. Representation, 0(0), 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/00344893.2020.1778513

  Examples of evaluation of representative deliberative process

Please note that examples below are not examples of evaluations done following the guidelines outlined in this document. Nevertheless, they can be a helpful starting point.

• Evaluations of Citizens’ Initiative Review processes

• Evaluation of the Scottish Parliament’s Citizens’ Panels on Primary Care

• Evaluation of Climate Assembly UK

• Evaluation of Buergerrat Demokratie (in german)

• Democracy Matters: Lessons from the 2015 Citizens’ Assemblies on English Devolution

• Evaluation Report of the Irish Citizens’ Assembly on Gender Equality

  Policy evaluation

• OECD (2020b), Improving Governance with Policy Evaluation : Lessons From Country Experiences, https://doi.org/10.1787/89b1577d-en