Experience politics and law, help shape the future – Potentials and limits of citizen participation in the climate transition
An interdisciplinary model project under the direction of Prof. Dr. Angela Schwerdtfeger and Prof. Dr. Simon Fink (Institute of Political Science), funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture in the „Zukunftsdiskurse“ programme, project duration: 1 May 2022 - 31 July 2023An edited volume with contributions to the project and beyond was published as an open access publication by Universitätsverlag Göttingen at the beginning of December 2023.
A report on the project was also published in the magazine Wissen hoch N at the beginning of February 2024.
Project video
How can the climate transition succeed? What framework do politics and law provide? What are the challenges and limits? How can citizens be better involved? We explored these questions together with a group of Göttingen citizens. Our project was intended to break new ground methodologically and generate scientific findings on citizen participation with the involvement of citizens in a practical test, so to speak. The core of the project was to allow citizens to experience the specific problem-solving strategies, advantages and problems of politics and law in the field of climate change in two simulations. We were able to gain impulses for science and practice from their experiences, which are summarized in an impulse paper. Citizen participation was thus both the topic and method of the political and legal science-based project.
Here you can find our project website.
Contact
- Franziska Berg (Research assistant responsible for the project)
- Anneke Borcherding
- Nikolina Domazet
- Nils Hanne
- Max-Julian Hinz
