The Bürgerrat Klima: Germany’s informal model for integrating citizen deliberation into politics
The Bürgerrat Klima: Germany’s informal model for integrating citizen deliberation into politics
Germany's federal‐level climate assembly, the Bürgerrat Klima , took place one year after the French Convention, between April to June 2021. This chapter provides an introduction to the Bürgerrat Klima, along with reflections on the lessons of the German experience for conducting climate assemblies. It articulates the integrative design characteristics of the assembly – namely, how it attempted to connect to policy‐making institutions and civil society. The informal model of integration in which citizens assemblies are commissioned by civil society organizations rather than the government, parliament or the administration, highlights some important lacunae in current debates about citizens' assemblies that have quite rapidly moved towards favoring institutionalization without a full consideration of the implied trade‐offs.
climate change, citizens' assemblies, deliberative democracy
365-386
Dean, Rikki
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Pelloquin, Gabriel
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8 July 2025
Dean, Rikki
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Pelloquin, Gabriel
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Dean, Rikki and Pelloquin, Gabriel
(2025)
The Bürgerrat Klima: Germany’s informal model for integrating citizen deliberation into politics.
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Courant, Dimitri and Reber, Bernard
(eds.)
Deliberative Democracy and Ecological Transition: The French Citizens' Convention for Climate.
ISTE; Wiley, .
(doi:10.1002/9781394388325.ch15).
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Germany's federal‐level climate assembly, the Bürgerrat Klima , took place one year after the French Convention, between April to June 2021. This chapter provides an introduction to the Bürgerrat Klima, along with reflections on the lessons of the German experience for conducting climate assemblies. It articulates the integrative design characteristics of the assembly – namely, how it attempted to connect to policy‐making institutions and civil society. The informal model of integration in which citizens assemblies are commissioned by civil society organizations rather than the government, parliament or the administration, highlights some important lacunae in current debates about citizens' assemblies that have quite rapidly moved towards favoring institutionalization without a full consideration of the implied trade‐offs.
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e-pub ahead of print date: 27 June 2025
Published date: 8 July 2025
Keywords:
climate change, citizens' assemblies, deliberative democracy
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Rikki Dean
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Gabriel Pelloquin
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Dimitri Courant
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Bernard Reber
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