Democratic Innovations in a Green Transition

DIGT examines the impact of Denmark’s climate citizens’ assembly on the Danish political system. In what way does the assembly strengthen support for green transition policies, and to what extent does it affect existing channels for public debate and democratic decision-making? DIGT aims to answer these questions through a new framework that combines the study of deliberative democracy with affect theory, new materialism, and science and technology studies (STS). The first subproject examines the assembly’s model of democratic participation. The second analyzes the assembly’s impact on existing political institutions. The third compares it with competing forms of civil society engagement. Overall, the goal is to show how the climate citizen’s assembly can contribute positively to green transition through new modes of democratic participation.