Medborgardialog
Ett demokratiexperiment i Örebro kommun
Deliberative democracyRepresentative democracyExperimentDialogueLocal governanceDeliberationMedborgardialogDeliberativ demokratiHabermasDeliberativa samtalRepresentativ demokrati
AbstractIn the beginning of 2007 the Swedish municipality Örebro decided to have a democraticexperiment, which ought to go under the name, ?Dialouge for the citizens?. Therepresentative elected politicians in Örebro tried to find ways to involve the people in theprocess of ruling. Why they choose to try this experiment on this very delicate matter, theclosure of several schools in the municipal, is one of the questions this essay is trying toanswer.The purpose of this essay is to find out whether the process was an attempt for the politiciansof the representative democracy to implement deliberative democracy in the structure of thelocal governance.The result of this study is that the politicians didn?t manage to reach to the citizens the waythey formerly had planned.