Deliberating Foreign Policy: Perceptions and Effects of Citizen Participation in Germany
| Autor: | Anna Geis, Hanna Pfeifer, Christian Opitz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sociology and Political Science
Politikwissenschaft media_common.quotation_subject decision making process Federal Republic of Germany Entscheidungsverfahren AA BMU deliberative Demokratie Public administration 050601 international relations environmental policy Perception Political science Außenministerium 050602 political science & public administration Außenpolitik Political Process Elections Political Sociology Political Culture media_common politische Willensbildung politische Soziologie politische Kultur politische Partizipation 05 social sciences Entscheidungsprozess Bundesrepublik Deutschland ministry of foreign affairs 0506 political science foreign policy Foreign policy Ministerium ddc:320 Political Science and International Relations Umweltpolitik ministry political participation deliberative democracy |
| Zdroj: | German Politics |
| ISSN: | 1743-8993 0964-4008 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09644008.2020.1786058 |
| Popis: | Citizen participation has been a popular format in policy fields like environmental and climate policies for many years. More recently, however, it has extended to issues of foreign policy which has long been considered as a prerogative of the executive in democratic systems. This paper analyses citizen participation in German foreign policy by comparing deliberative-participatory processes implemented by the German Federal Foreign Office (AA) and the Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety (BMU). We draw on recent scholarship in the field of deliberative democracy in order to gain a better understanding how the two ministries understand citizen participation, how they implement these processes, and what effects they have on formal decision-making. Using interviews, participant observation, and document analysis, we investigate two processes of citizen participation in depth. We argue that ministerial understandings of citizen participation determine how they design formats in their respective field. This leads to quite divergent implementations and results of deliberative-participatory formats in the field of foreign policy, depending on whether the AA or the BMU initiates them. |
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