ABSTRACT
In recent years, democratic innovations have become an increasingly popular idea in both academia and real-world politics. They emerge as a response to various flaws in contemporary liberal democracies, or ‘democratic deficits’, which preclude ordinary citizens from exercising effective control in the political process (Dryzek and Dunleavy, 2009). One explanation for the ‘democratic deficits’ is that, under the democratic institutions of competitive elections and interest bargaining, ordinary citizens are often deprived of channels to influence politics and policy making. This issue is precisely what democratic innovations aim to address.
