The Potential of Participedia as a Crowdsourcing Tool for Comparative Analysis of Democratic Innovations

摘要: For two reasons, our capacity for systematic comparison of innovative participatory democratic processes remains limited. First, the category innovations relatively vague when compared to more traditional institutions and practices. Second, until recently there existed no large-sample databases that captured relevant variables in practice innovation. The lone exception these patterns is Participedia database, located online. well placed respond obstacles comparative research on innovation. its crowdsourced data collection strategy means many cases platform are not known have been subject sustained academic analysis. articles provides basis analysis both within type (e.g., budgeting, mini-publics) across types. The allows content text descriptions and/or statistical datasets generated from structured fields. This article describes about available Participedia, furnishes examples kinds quantitative qualitative insights those enables.