“Scattered Steps and Failure of Participatory Democracy in Belgium: A Study by ULB-VUB Academics”

2023-05-23 04:15:53

A team of ULB-VUB academics looked at participatory democracy in Belgium. Conclusion: many steps, but scattered, and without political impact. Citizens deliberate, their options are not taken into account. Beware of the boomerang effect: even less confidence in democracy.

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For David Coppi

Published on 05/23/2023 at 06:15
Reading time: 2 mins

A one year of elections, given the state of public opinion, it is a warning: be careful to generously exalt citizen participation and then sit on it… Basically, this is the conclusion – a call (for help) in substance – of a vast “study on the mechanisms of participatory democracy in Belgium: practices, challenges, perspectives”, carried out jointly by the ULB and the VUB, inspired and financed by the company “Itsme”, an online identification application (the Covid Safe Ticket, it was her, access to tax declarations, it is also her), here roughly speaking in a role of patronage, or presumed such.

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