On the 21st of June, from 2 pm to 3 pm, the VeCo Interdisciplinary Research Seminar series will host a new seminar titled “Gamification: A (New?) Paradigm for Supranational Democracy”.
Gamification figures prominently among on-going processes of modernisation of democratic governance. Gamification is expanding rapidly also at the supranational level. Supranational regulators – including both international institutions such as the World Bank, the United Nations and the Council of Europe and supranational institutions, such as the European Union and the European Central Bank – are increasingly introducing gamified elements into their policies.
The seminar will be focused on three broad questions:
- are we witnessing with gamification into supranational regulatory powers a new paradigm of participatory democracy?
- has gamification the same disruptive potential of what Charles Sabel and Jonathan Zeitlin once named “experimental governance” to describe nascent forms of governance in the European Union?
- if this is so, is gamified supranational governance bound to revolutionize civil society participation in policymaking?