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<div>I hope this CFP for the conference of the Participatory and Deliberative Democracy group is of interest for many of you!</div>
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<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>Call for Panels and Papers</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>International Conference of the
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<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 16pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>PSA/PSAI Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Groups</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 6pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="6"><span style="font-size:24pt;" lang="en-US"><b><i>Democratic Transformations</i></b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 16pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt;" lang="en-US"><b><i>Spaces, Connections, and Systemic Change</i></b></span></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>Dublin City University, Ireland</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:center;margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="center"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>June 4-5 2020</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Current times are characterized by the proliferation of a variety of participatory spaces, emerging
in response to the shortcomings and challenges that modern democracies are facing. These sites of engagement vary widely, including citizens’ assemblies, occupied public squares, workplace democracy, participation in schools, and flash mobs. Further variety
to these spaces is added by new modes of digital deliberation, e-rulemaking, and various forms of online engagement. Recent debates in the scholarship on deliberative and participatory democracy suggest that the most fruitful way to understand these spaces
is not as insular phenomena but rather as connected in participatory ecologies or participatory systems. Different spaces might fulfil different democratic functions in a larger system. Digital connectivity often contributes to these newly emerging networks
of various, hybrid forms of participation. This opens up opportunities for systemic change. Through their connections, participatory spaces are part of deep systemic transformations toward more participatory societies.
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<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">The Conference of the PSA Participatory and Deliberative Democracy Specialist Group 2020 invites democracy
researchers in all stages of their careers (including PhD students) to discuss their empirical and theoretical work. Topics may include but are not limited to
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<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 36pt;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">-</font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:;">
</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Digital engagement, e-rulemaking, and crowdsourcing</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Mini publics, Citizens Assemblies</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Global democracy</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Participatory experiences from the Global South</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Feminist, gender and queer approaches to democracy</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Radical democratic, socialist or anarchist politics</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Participatory constitution-making</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Workplace participation and worker cooperatives</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Democratic innovations</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Social movements’ democratic experiences and unconventional forms of participation</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Ecological and green democracy</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">The economic context of participation</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Inequalities and modes of exclusion/inclusion</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Consumerism as form of participation</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Public administration, representative institutions, and elite deliberation</font></span></font></div>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Research methods for studying participatory and deliberative democracy</font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>Conference Venue:
</b></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Dublin City University, School of Communications, Glasnevin Campus, Henry Grattan Building,
</font><a href="http://www.dcu.ie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif" color="black"><span lang="en-GB">www.dcu.ie</span></font></span></font></a><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif" color="black">,
</font><a href="https://www.dcu.ie/info/campus.shtml" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif" color="black">https://www.dcu.ie/info/campus.shtml</font></span></font></a><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif" color="black"><b>.
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<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>How to submit a paper/panel proposal:</b></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"> Please send
a paper abstract of around 150 words with a title, authors’ names, affiliation, and contact information or a panel proposal containing three to four paper abstracts
</font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>by 24</b></font><font size="-1" face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b><sup>th</sup></b></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b> of January 2020</b></font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">
</font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>to </b></font><a href="mailto:PDDconference2020@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font color="#0563C1"><span lang="en-US"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif" color="black"><span lang="en-GB"><b>PDDconference2020@gmail.com</b></span></font></span></font></a><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">.
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<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">The application of early career researchers including PhD students is encouraged. Conference attendance
is free of charge. Participants and their institutions need to cover expenses for travel and accommodation.
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<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><b>Members of the organising committee:</b></font></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Hans Asenbaum, IASS Potsdam,
</font><a href="mailto:hans.asenbaum@iass-potsdam.de" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">hans.asenbaum@iass-potsdam.de</font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Anthony Costello, University College Cork,
</font><a href="mailto:anthony.costello@ucc.ie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif"><span lang="en-US">anthony.costello@ucc.ie</span></font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Rod Dacombe, King’s College, London,
</font><a href="mailto:rod.dacombe@kcl.ac.uk" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">rod.dacombe@kcl.ac.uk</font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Anastasia Deligiaouri, Dublin City University,
</font><a href="mailto:anastasia.deligkiaouri@dcu.ie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">anastasia.deligkiaouri@dcu.ie</font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">Jane Suiter, Dublin City University, jane
</font><a href="mailto:suiter@dcu.ie" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">suiter@dcu.ie</font></a></span></font></div>
<div style="margin:0 0 12pt 0;" align="justify"><font size="3" face="Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">This conference is organized in an international cooperation between the PDD group of PSA (UK) and the
PDD group of PSAI (Ireland). It is hosted by Dublin City University in Ireland. We are grateful for the generous support of King’s College London, the Institute for Future Media and Journalism</font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">
</font><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">(</font><a href="http://fujomedia.eu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">fujomedia.eu</font></a><font face="Calibri Light,sans-serif">) and the project “Promoting E-Rulemaking
in the EU through Deliberative Procedures” (funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Curie Sklodowska grant agreement No798502).</font></span></font></div>
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