The report was prepared by the OECD Public Governance Directorate (GOV), headed by Marcos Bonturi. It was developed under the strategic direction of Alessandro Bellantoni, acting Head of the Open and Innovative Government Division in GOV and Head of the Open Government Unit. The report was co-ordinated by Claudia Chwalisz, who is in charge of the Unit’s work on innovative citizen participation. Ieva Česnulaitytė provided support throughout the report elaboration and was largely responsible for the data collection, cleaning, and validation. Amelia Godber and Roxana Glavanov prepared the manuscript for publication and controlled the quality. Alessandro Bellantoni provided strategic comments on all chapters.
The data collection was facilitated by collaboration with members of the Democracy R&D Network, an international network of organisations, associations, and individuals who are organising, implementing, studying, and advocating for deliberative activities. Democracy R&D members were extremely generous with their time to provide the OECD Secretariat with detailed data concerning their respective deliberative projects.
Chapters 5 (on principles) and 6 (on institutionalisation) were both written with substantive collaboration from two international advisory groups of leading practitioners from government, civil society, and academics.
The group that contributed to Chapter 5 included: Yago Bermejo Abati (Deliberativa, Spain); Damian Carmichael (Department of Industry, Science, Energy, and Resources, Australia); Nicole Curato (Centre for Deliberative Democracy & Global Governance, Australia); Linn Davis (Healthy Democracy, United States); Yves Dejaeghere (G1000 Organisation, Belgium); Marcin Gerwin (Center for Climate Assemblies, Poland); Angela Jain (Nexus Institute, Germany); Dimitri Lemaire (Particitiz, Belgium); Miriam Levin (Department of Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport, United Kingdom); Peter MacLeod (MASS LBP, Canada); Malcolm Oswald (Citizens’ Juries CIC, United Kingdom); Anna Renkamp (Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany); Min Reuchamps (UC Louvain, Belgium), and Iain Walker (newDemocracy Foundation, Australia).
The group that contributed to Chapter 6 included: Bjørn Bedsted (Danish Board of Technology, Denmark); Yago Bermejo Abati (Deliberativa, Spain); Terrill Bouricius (Former elected official and unaffiliated political scientist, United States); Lyn Carson (newDemocracy Foundation, Australia); Nicole Curato (Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance, Australia); Yves Dejaeghere (G1000 Organisation, Belgium); Mahmud Farooque (Arizona State University, United States); Doreen Grove (Scottish Government, United Kingdom); Brett Hennig (Sortition Foundation, United Kingdom); Dominik Hierlemann (Bertelsmann Stiftung, Germany); Angela Jain (Nexus Institute, Germany); Dimitri Lemaire (Particitz, Belgium); Miriam Levin (UK Government, United Kingdom); Peter MacLeod (MASS LBP, Canada); Arantxa Mendiharat (Deliberativa, Spain); Min Reuchamps (UC Louvain, Belgium); David Schecter (Democracy R&D, International Network); Graham Smith (Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, United Kingdom); Jane Suiter (Institute for Future Media and Journalism, Dublin City University, Ireland); Nivek Thompson (Deliberatively Engaging, Australia), Niamh Webster (Scottish Government, United Kingdom), and Antoine Vergne (Missions Publiques, France).
The OECD has been engaging with the OECD Innovative Citizen Participation Network (ICPN), an international network of practitioners, public officials, academics, and designers. The ICPN members were convened at full-day meetings in June 2019, where they helped identify the research questions and suggested sources for the data collection, and in January 2020, where they provided rich comments and feedback regarding the report’s preliminary findings. These meetings were possible thanks to support from the Royal Society of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce (RSA), the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), and the Open Society Foundations (OSF). The full list of ICPN members is in the methodology annex.
The report benefitted from the strategic comments of Kent Aitken, Carlotta Alfonsi, Karine Badr, Éric Buge, Nicole Curato, Marco Daglio, Natalia Domagala, Laurie Drake, Karin Fuller, Felipe González-Zapata, Doreen Grove, Lauren Howard, Claire McEvoy, Matt Ryan, Teele Pehk, Mariana Prats, Arturo Rivera-Perez, Graham Smith, David Schecter, Jane Suiter, Piret Tõnurist, Barbara Ubaldi, João Vasconcelos, and Benjamin Welby.
The OECD Secretariat wishes to express its gratitude to the Working Party on Open Government for reviewing the report.