CENTRE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICY

UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY

PROFESSOR LYN CARSON DALLAS ROGERS

Collaborative problem solving: The key to robust policies

Pericles on citizenship and democracy?

“Our constitution does not copy the laws of neighbouring states; we are rather a pattern to others than imitators ourselves. Its administration favours the many instead of the few; this is why it is called a democracy”.

A quote from Pericles’ Funeral Oration from the 5th Century BC recorded by Thucydides

Collaborative problem solving

Deliberative democracy:

1.Involving a representative selection of citizens, interests and/or perspectives;

1.Guiding them through a facilitated and informed process of dialogue and deliberation; and

1.Allowing citizens to set agendas and make decisions.

World Wide Views on Global Warming

World Wide Views on Climate change .

One day - 4000 citizens - 38 countries. One of the first deliberative democracy process to be

conducted on a global scale.