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Participation and Trust: Conditions and Constraints on Democratic Deliberation

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Public engagement in policy making is on mechanism used in an effort to improve the legitimacy of policy decisions surrounding ethically contentious health policy or medical technologies. Citizens’ trust in the process and in the medical, science and democratic institutions surrounding the policy is vital to the success of efforts to engage publics in deliberative processes. This paper explores the nature and role of trust in deliberative democracy, as well as effects of misplaced and abused trust on the legitimacy of specific policies and the overall project of inclusive participation of citizens in public policy deliberation.

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Acknowledgments

This research was supported by the Australian Research Council Discovery Grant “Big Picture Bioethics: Policy-Making and Liberal Democracy” (DP0556068), the ARC Centre of Excellence for Materials Science (CE0561616), and the University of Tasmania. It is a revised version of a chapter entitled “Trust accountability and participation: conditions and constraints on ‘new’ democratic models” published in Public Engagement and Emerging Technologies, ed. Edna Einsiedel and Kieran O’Doherty: UBC Press, 2013, 69–79, Vancouver. Reprinted with the permission of UBC Press.

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    Susan Dodds

  2. School of Humanities, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia

    Susan Dodds

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    Rachel A. Ankeny

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Dodds, S. (2016). Participation and Trust: Conditions and Constraints on Democratic Deliberation. In: Dodds, S., Ankeny, R. (eds) Big Picture Bioethics: Developing Democratic Policy in Contested Domains. The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32240-7_3

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