IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/spr/rischp/978-3-032-02302-5_14.html

Multi-Stakeholder Mediation: Improving the Practice of Deliberative Public Engagement

In: Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation

Author

Listed:
  • Lawrence Susskind

    (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of Urban Studies and Planning)

Abstract

There is a long history of public engagement in local decision-making in the United States. The way this has usually been done, however, has provided insufficient opportunities for citizens to actually shape decisions. Merely giving the public a chance to express its views is not enough. Stakeholders need to be part of a dialogue that leads to agreements that all sides can support. In recent decades, new forms of deliberative public engagement have produced better results. The addition of a neutral facilitator or mediator has made all the difference. In this chapter, an experienced practitioner reviews efforts to resolve public disputes over the siting of renewable energy facilities. His findings are encouraging. Multi-stakeholder mediation has generated deliberative public engagement, guaranteeing stakeholders a place at the table. The next step is to guarantee that all public engagement efforts are assisted by professional mediators. The results are likely to be fairer (in the eyes of those effected), lead to agreements implemented quickly (saving time and money), and guarantee that scientific and technical information is taken seriously.

Suggested Citation

  • Lawrence Susskind, 2025. "Multi-Stakeholder Mediation: Improving the Practice of Deliberative Public Engagement," Risk, Governance and Society, in: Fairness and Competence in Citizen Participation, pages 245-262, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:rischp:978-3-032-02302-5_14
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-02302-5_14
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a
    for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:spr:rischp:978-3-032-02302-5_14. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.springer.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.