The Democratic Innovations and Scale Database

The objective of the present database is to provide an exhaustive as possible list of direct and deliberative democratic innovations worldwide, of their core contextual and institutional features and, most importantly, of the population size of the political entity in which they have been implemented. Studying the impact of political entities’ population size on the functioning of democratic innovations is the main interest of the ‘Democratic Innovations and Scale’ research project that this database is part of. To establish the database, I drew on the most exhaustive existing databases on direct as well as on deliberative democratic innovations to date (as cited in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). After merging databases and eliminating duplicates, I filtered the cases that were in line with the selection criteria of my own research (see criteria specified in the method, acknowledgements and citation section of the sheet). Excluded cases are documented in a separate sheet. For the final list of retained cases, the population size of the political entity in which they were conducted was collected based on World Bank, Database Earth or national census data. Latest version: 1.0 [06.11.2024].

本数据库旨在尽可能全面地列出全球范围内的直接与审议式民主创新案例，包括其核心的情境与制度特征，以及至关重要的实施这些创新的政体人口规模。探究政体人口规模对民主创新运作的影响是隶属于本数据库的‘民主创新与规模’研究项目的核心兴趣所在。为了构建此数据库，我参考了迄今为止关于直接及审议式民主创新的最为详尽的现有数据库（详见于方法、致谢及引用部分）。在合并数据库并消除重复项之后，我筛选出符合自身研究选择标准的案例（详见方法、致谢及引用部分）。被排除的案例已在单独的表格中记录。对于最终保留的案例列表，根据世界银行、数据库地球或国家人口普查数据，收集了它们实施地政体的人口规模。最新版本：1.0 [2024年11月6日]