ABSTRACT
The authors explore the dedicated practices of public participation advocates and how they contribute to the dynamic processes of transnational diffusion of public engagement instruments: the implementation, theorization and universalizing of instruments, thereby affecting their transnationalization. The concept of “public participation advocates” reveals the distributed agency that contributes to the expansion of public participation instruments. Drawing empirically on a trio of citizen panel instruments, the planning cell, the citizens’ jury and the consensus conference, the chapter outlines selected episodes of their transnational spread to become standardized “universal bestsellers”.
