Democratic deliberation for sustainability transformations: between constructiveness and disruption

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Figure 1. Marrying deliberation with policy making versus marrying it with protest.

Table 1. Constructive versus disruptive deliberation.

System-supporting deliberation	System-disrupting deliberation
Initiated and owned by authorities	Initiated and owned by movements
Decision-oriented	Discussion-oriented
Goal-oriented / strategic	Open-ended
Discrete and supplementary	Continuous and directive
Orchestrated and controlled	Organic and “messy”
Organized methodical fora	Plethora of social spaces and forms
Top-down	Bottom-up