BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Simon Pek (University of Victoria) DTSTART:20230301T170000Z DTEND:20230301T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T111155Z UID:Metagov/137 DESCRIPTION:Title: Deliberative democracy\, deliberative mini-publics\, and member particip ation in large cooperatives\nby Simon Pek (University of Victoria) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nAbstract: This presentation will cover key themes from a new paper titled “Reconceptualizing and Imp roving Member Participation in Large Cooperatives: Insights from Deliberat ive Democracy and Deliberative Mini-Publics”. In this paper\, I focus on how to overcome pervasive concerns with member participation in large coo peratives. I draw on research on deliberative democracy to disentangle dif ferent forms of member participation—those that are aggregative in natur e (e.g.\, voting on resolutions)\, and those that are deliberative (e.g.\, deliberating about preferred representatives). I then argue that large co operatives can improve both forms of participation through four targeted u ses of deliberative mini-publics designed to complement cooperatives’ ex isting governance structures.\n\nJoin the Metagov Community and submit a s eminar proposal in #seminar-planning. \n\nhttps://community.metagov.org/\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/137/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR