Partizipative Entsorgungspolitik in der Schweiz

How is citizen participation in nuclear waste storage siting processes designed in the Swiss Confederation? Drawing on a set of criteria, this book first evaluates citizen participation in the Swiss nuclear waste storage siting process (the so-called ‘regionale Partizipation’). In its second part, those results are compared against similarly evaluated citizen consultation procedures. Conceptually, both the evaluation criteria used and the citizen participation examined are divided into two groups: process and participation criteria as well as participatory and deliberative processes. A major finding of the comparison is that, in general terms, process criteria (as assigned to the deliberative strand within the theory of participatory democracy) are satisfied better than participation criteria (as assigned to the participatory strand within the theory of participatory democracy)—irrespective of the type of consultation procedure at hand.