It is well-recognized that the general public is not typically involved in food policy debates, with participation often limited to elite participants with special interests. This paper investigates potential strategies for more effective and legitimate food policy utilizing systemic approaches to deliberative democracy. Two main strands are explored: first, it is argued that food is a key domain that could benefit from the move to systematic approaches to deliberative democracy. Examination of various types of public engagement about food, including consultation by submission, consensus and citizen conferences, citizens’ juries, and local food planning, reveals a dominance of micro-public perspectives that warrant greater integration and analysis at a systemic, macro level. Second, the paper contributes to the dialogue on systemic deliberative processes by analyzing tensions that are endemic in the domain of food policy, illustrating some of the points of weakness (and potential strengths) for effective deliberation in similar complex systems as well as presenting suggestions of directions for future research to contribute to the development of a more robust analytic framework for systematic approaches to deliberative

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邀请所有人参加会议：通过协商方法实现更有效和合法的食品政策的战略

众所周知，公众通常不参与食品政策辩论，参与通常仅限于具有特殊兴趣的精英参与者。本文研究了利用系统性方法实现协商民主的更有效和合法的食品政策的潜在策略。探讨了两个主要方面：首先，有人认为食物是一个关键领域，可以从转向协商民主的系统方法中受益。对各种类型的食品公众参与的审查，包括提交咨询、共识和公民会议、公民陪审团和地方食品规划，揭示了微观公共观点的主导地位，需要在系统的宏观层面进行更大的整合和分析。第二，