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Citizens Juries: One Solution for Difficult Environmental Questions

Author : Ned Crosby

Published in: Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

Publisher: Springer Netherlands

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This paper presents a particular method of citizen participation, the Citizens Jury1 process, as a novel way of obtaining citizen input on environmental questions. The Citizens Jury process uses random selection to impanel a group of citizens to study specific public policy issues or to review candidates in an election. The paper starts with an overview of the process, moves on to a discussion of using Citizens Juries on nuclear waste facilities and concludes with a review of how the process meets some general criteria of fairness and competency derived from the work of Jürgen Habermas.

Metadata
Title
Citizens Juries: One Solution for Difficult Environmental Questions
Author
Ned Crosby
Copyright Year
1995
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0131-8_8