New handbook on public participation models

Participation-Handbook

The European Institute on Public Participation has published together with the Bertelsmann Foundation a systematic comparison of public participation models used in poilcy-making (pdf, in German). In particular the study focuses on large-scale deliberative models and how they are used by whom. These models include everything from Appreciative Inquiry to Participatory Budgeting to Future Workshops.

The handbook is intended for policy-makers, pracitioners of public participation and researchers. It explicitly follows a systematic, though application-oriented approach. This helps to compare the remit and merit of each model. They are analysed according to their main features, historical development, the degree of their use and important actors involved in them. Subsequently, sponsors and issues for which these models are used are presented and illustrated with examples.

The study is only availalbe in German.