Page 99 - Enabling National Initiatives to Take Democracy Beyond Elections

Design Choices Trade-Offs Participant Selection Stakeholders Advantages: Decisions more likely to be effective because they link more closely to those in positions of power, often the people and their positions are known well in advance Disadvantages: Less likely to include ordinary people and perspectives, less likely to include new/different solutions to those that have already considered Public Advantages: More likely to include ordinary people and perspectives, more likely to consider new/different solutions to old problems (no history or locked in views) Disadvantages: Less likely to be effective with fewer linkages to stakeholders or to be dismissed by powerful vested stakeholders, positions are unknown going into the process which for some means higher risk 97