Deliberative Democracy, Participation, and OECD Peer Reviews of Environmental Policies:

摘要: Deliberative democracy has attracted increasing attention in political science and been suggested as a normative ideal for evaluation. This article analyzes to what extent evaluations carried out highly government-driven manner can nevertheless contribute deliberative democracy. potential is examined by taking the Organisation Economic Co-operation Development's environmental performance reviews an example of expert- led evaluative process built on ideals representative The author argues that although they are not participatory, these lay groundwork "empowering" weaker actors within governments improving factual basis polit- ical debate decision making. suggests enhance democracy, evaluation need be inclusive, dialogical, but broader view needed, encompassing indirect impacts power relations knowledge which making relies.