Reimagining Democracy: Lessons in Deliberative Democracy from the Irish Front Line

Brown Democracy Medal

by David M. Farrell, Jane Suiter

The Lawrence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal, presented by the McCourtney Institute for Democracy at Penn State, recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.

2019 Brown Democracy Medal winners David M. Farrell and Jane Suiter are co-leads on the Irish Citizens' Assembly Project, which has transformed Irish politics over the past decade. The project started in 2011 and led to a series of significant policy decisions, including successful referenda on abortion and marriage equality.

Thanks to generous funding from The Pennsylvania State University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access (OA) volumes, available from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories.

72 pages, Paperback

Published September 15, 2019

About the author

David M. Farrell is Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Politics and International Relations at University College Dublin. He is a specialist in the study of parties and electoral systems, founding co-editor of Party Politics, and co-editor of the ECPR/Oxford University Press series, Comparative Politics.

Reviews

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Deliberative democracy

A quick read about the practice of deliberative democracy in ireland through citizen assembly. The book argue that this method could bring better changes from bottom up, especially the context was to solved 2008 crisis from bottom up.