Leston-Bandeira, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-6131-4607 and Siefken, S.T. orcid.org/0000-0002-0651-987X (2023) The development of public engagement as a core institutional role for parliaments. The Journal of Legislative Studies. ISSN 1357-2334
Abstract
Public engagement has become a noticeable activity for parliaments across the world. However, we lack understanding of its role despite considerable developments in scholarly work on public engagement in the sciences and on deliberative and participatory democracy by social scientists. This article provides a framework to understand the significance of parliamentary public engagement and to evaluate its effectiveness. It explains how parliamentary public engagement has emerged because of a representational shift in who is doing the representing in parliament and in what is represented, following key societal changes. We define parliamentary public engagement, showing the importance of differentiating between the activity, its effects and broader democratic ideals. We identify information and education as the types of engagement activity most developed by parliaments, with much still to do in consultation and participation activities. The article finishes with a discussion of seven key challenges in developing and implementing effective institutional parliamentary public engagement practices.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
Keywords: | Parliamentary public engagement; representation; public engagement; parliamentary communication |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Politics & International Studies (POLIS) (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number EU - European Union 834986 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 23 Aug 2023 10:58 |
Last Modified: | 23 Aug 2023 10:58 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/13572334.2023.2214390 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202430 |
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