The Scottish Jury on Land Use Management gathered 22 citizens for 2 and a half days in the Scottish Parliament. The Jury's recommendations were to inform the work of the Scottish Parliament’s Environment, Climate Change, and Land Reform Committee.
Problems and Purpose
A group of 22 people from all over Scotland, randomly selected and stratified by gender, ‘background’ and age met for 2 ½ days in the Scottish parliament building to discuss how funding for land-use management could be structured to help improve Scotland’s natural environment. The participants were able to question six sets of invited ‘experts’ about different dimensions of this question before coming to a set of recommendations for the committee. The whole process was independently evaluated.
Background History and Context
This was the first time the Parliament has run an event of this kind.
Organizing, Supporting, and Funding Entities
Participant Recruitment and Selection
The citizens of the jury were selected from an initial group of respondents to letters sent to three thousand randomly selected households across Scotland.
Methods and Tools Used
What Went On: Process, Interaction, and Participation
Influence, Outcomes, and Effects
The recommendations are due to be passed on to the committee, but reporting hasn’t yet happened. In a 18th June meeting, Mark Russell said: ‘[t]his committee engaged with recent citizens jury work, which has been very positive—I am sure that it will report in due course.’ In a recent committee report, it stated “[a] report outlining the key findings will inform the Committee’s future work programme’.
Analysis and Lessons Learned
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This entry is based on the POLITICIZE dataset. More information can be found at the following links:
- Paulis, Emilien; Pilet, Jean-Benoit; Panel, Sophie; Vittori, Davide; Close, Caroline, 2020, "POLITICIZE Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z7X6GT, Harvard Dataverse, V1
- Pilet J-B, Paulis E, Panel S.,Vitori D & Close C. 202X The POLITICIZE Dataset: an inventory of Deliberative Mini-Publics (DMPs) in Europe. European Political Science.