Deliberative democracy, deliberative mini-publics, and member participation in large cooperatives

Abstract: Abstract: This presentation will cover key themes from a new paper titled “Reconceptualizing and Improving Member Participation in Large Cooperatives: Insights from Deliberative Democracy and Deliberative Mini-Publics”. In this paper, I focus on how to overcome pervasive concerns with member participation in large cooperatives. I draw on research on deliberative democracy to disentangle different forms of member participation—those that are aggregative in nature (e.g., voting on resolutions), and those that are deliberative (e.g., deliberating about preferred representatives). I then argue that large cooperatives can improve both forms of participation through four targeted uses of deliberative mini-publics designed to complement cooperatives’ existing governance structures.

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game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

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