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The principles of responsibility and accountability have increasingly become a significant concept for the political capability to act independently and make decisions without superior authorization.
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For different ways on how public deliberation could work at the core of formal democratic decision making, see Goodin (2008). Cf. also Warren and Pearse (2008) who analyze the case of a citizen assembly in British Columbia, Canada, that was empowered to make a decision on the electoral system which led to a referendum. Cf. also Chambers (2012).
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Klinke, A., Renn, O. (2018). Distributed Responsibility in Risk Governance. In: Wilderer, P., Renn, O., Grambow, M., Molls, M., Mainzer, K. (eds) Sustainable Risk Management. Strategies for Sustainability. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-66233-6_2
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