TY - CHAP
T1 - How Collective Political Intelligence produced better policy
T2 - Political Task Committees in Gentofte, Denmark
AU - Sørensen, Eva
AU - Torfing, Jacob
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In 2015, the City Council in Gentofte, Denmark, decided to change the way it develops policies in order to make them more effective, innovative, and legitimate. To that end, the politicians decided to introduce the so-called Political Task Committees where politicians and citizens engage in a joint effort to formulate new political programs and strategies. A longitudinal case study indicates that the committees hold the potential to advance a particular kind of collective political intelligence that could turn out to be an important building block in and guideline for overcoming some of the current challenges for representative democracy.
AB - In 2015, the City Council in Gentofte, Denmark, decided to change the way it develops policies in order to make them more effective, innovative, and legitimate. To that end, the politicians decided to introduce the so-called Political Task Committees where politicians and citizens engage in a joint effort to formulate new political programs and strategies. A longitudinal case study indicates that the committees hold the potential to advance a particular kind of collective political intelligence that could turn out to be an important building block in and guideline for overcoming some of the current challenges for representative democracy.
U2 - 10.4324/9781003215929-13
DO - 10.4324/9781003215929-13
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9781032105550
SN - 9781032105611
T3 - Routledge International Handbooks
SP - 181
EP - 189
BT - The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intelligence for Democracy and Governance
A2 - Boucher, Stephen
A2 - Hallin, Carina Antonia
A2 - Paulson, Lex
PB - Routledge
CY - Oxon/New York
ER -