ABSTRACT
A key challenge for bottom-up deliberative democracy, as in the process of the G1000, is guaranteeing the political impact. Intuitively no public institutions initiated the mini-public and the political uptake was deemed to be little. This chapter analyses all the articles published in Dutch and French-speaking newspapers in Belgium that covered the G1000 over a period. The G1000 did spark public debate on the state of democracy, and it set the systemic agenda. The governmental agenda consists of which is taken into account by public authorities at the international, national, regional or local levels, which referred to as conventional political uptake. In addition to studying political party manifestos and parliamentary document also conducted a survey among Belgian representatives soon after the G1000. Analysing causality in the context of public policy is difficult and it concludes that the weight of the G1000's proposals was, in practice, negligible in the context of public policies in Belgium.
