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Publication authors: Fionna Saintraint, Jane Suiter
Publication link: Strategic Motivations and Normative Objectives: The Rationale Behind Irish Politicians’ Support for Citizens’ Assemblies
Fionna is currently a PhD Candidate working on citizens' assemblies in policymaking. She was previously Project Manager for the French speaking parliament of Brussels for two years....
Professor Jane Suiter is the Director of DCU Institute for Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo). She is a social scientist whose research interests focus on the public sphere. Her present research is focused on the social, political and communicative aspects of citizen participation, empowerment and direct and participative democracy. She has a particular interest in the potential of deliberation and how worked on and researcher a number of real world deliberative assemblies including We the Cit...
The Irish Research Council awarded a prestigious Consolidator Laureate Award to Prof. Jane Suiter for the COMDEL project. COMDEL’s ambition is to advance frontier research on the role of deliberation in addressing climate change. Specifically, it aims to deliver new theoretical and empirical insights into the capacity of deliberation to bridge communication and knowledge gaps between climate scientists, citizens, media actors, and elite policymakers concerning climate change. It is premised o...
