Page 100 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

Design Choices Trade-Offs Size Larger Advantages: Easier to demonstrate broad public inclusion, easier to scale to larger jurisdictions Disadvantages: : More challenging to construct high-quality deliberation; more expensive Smaller Advantages: Easier to construct high quality deliberation; less expensive Disadvantages: More challenging to communicate the involvement of all parts of the community; more difficult to scale to larger jurisdictions, harder to select a representative sample Duration Longer Advantages: More time for learning, deeper deliberation, more opportunities to connect to wider community, longer means more commitment and ownership of the outcome Disadvantages: Not suitable for crises or short decision timelines; more expensive; requires greater time commitments from participants which can bias toward those with time. 98 A Project of the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF)