CENTRE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICY

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Collaborative problem solving The key to robust
policies

• CENTRE FOR CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC POLICY
• UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY
• PROFESSOR LYN CARSON
• DALLAS ROGERS

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Pericles on citizenship and democracy?

• Our constitution does not copy the laws of
  neighbouring states we are rather a pattern to
  others than imitators ourselves. Its
  administration favours the many instead of the
  few this is why it is called a democracy.
• A quote from Pericles Funeral Oration from the
  5th Century BC recorded by Thucydides

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Collaborative problem solving

• Deliberative democracy
• Involving a representative selection of citizens,
  interests and/or perspectives
• Guiding them through a facilitated and informed
  process of dialogue and deliberation and
• Allowing citizens to set agendas and make
  decisions.

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World Wide Views on Global Warming

• World Wide Views on Climate change
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• One day - 4000 citizens - 38 countries.
• One of the first deliberative democracy process
  to be conducted on a global scale.