Publications

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1 Circular economy by task- democracy Exploratory questions as a startup tool for transformative action and transdisciplinary research Presented at the 2026 New Business Models conference, Toulouse, France 0
2 Mixed Task Democracy - Politics for the common good Presented at the 2024 Economy for the Common Good conference, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands 0
3 Mixed Circular economy diagram sketcher CEVIS Presented at the 2024 New Business Models conference, San Sebastian, Spain 0
4 Bootstrapping method for product councils Presented at the 2023 New Business Models conference, Maastricht, The Netherlands 0
5 Proliferating circularity efforts - Coordinating multi-value creation in multi-actor contexts Presented at the 2022 New Business Models conference, Rome, Italy 0
6 Reflecties op de Try out Transitiekamer Deelverslag van het project ‘Try out Transitiekamer’ van de DuurzaamDoor Participatietafel Regionale Netwerken (PTRN) 0

Introduction

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1 Reader workshop Task democracy A four page introduction to the task democracy model, written for the SDG Netherlands foundation (2026) 0
2 Podcast ‘Collectieve transitiemacht in de praktijk, taakdemocratie als vierde macht in de tetras politica’ Podcastmaker Nynke Visser in gesprek met Peter Bootsma (2024) 0
3 Podcast ‘Politieke Systemen, Taakdemocratie, Duurzaamheid’ Podcastmaker Tristan Hofman in gesprek met Peter Bootsma, Groene Burgemeester Groningen (2023) 0

Task Democracy Resources

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1 Introduction Texts and other media of various length for various audiences 3
2 Projects Implementations of the task democracy model 5
3 Training materials Workshop designs, brainstorm canvasses, flipover examples, etc. 2
4 Task democratic platform blueprints Templates for organisational documents 3
5 Publications Conference papers, journal articles, etc. 6
6 Q&A Questions and answers 4

Task democracy and th Collective Impact model

In 2011, Kania and Kramer published an article titled ‘Collective Impact’, in which they compare the success of a project for improving education in Kentucky USA to failures in similar efforts elsewhere. [1] A nonprofit organisation called Strive brought together local leaders to tackle the student achievement crisis and improve education. “Strive partners have improved student success in dozens of key areas across three large public school districts.

Future thinking, citizen participation and democratic refreshment (in Dutch)

Inspiration and meeting day for municipal council members, policy officers, city and village makers. How do we strengthen local democracy with long-term thinking, participation and citizen power? Organized by The Turn Club and the Local Democracy Coalition in partnership with the Ministry of the Future (an NGO), the Noorden Duurzaam association, Stichting Voor Democratie, the Dutch Democracy Coalition and the National Listening Campaign.

https://lokaledemocratiecoalitie.nl/22mei/

TD Paper presentation at 7th International Conference on New Business Models (BM 2022)

In this paper, we highlight the growing urgency of sustainability transitions in general and circularity transitions in particular, which is hardly taking shape in practice. We explore new pathways to accelerate such transition, focusing on a regional scale. We frame the lack of change as a multi-faceted, wicked, problem or organisation. Two specific aspects of increasing complexity are explored: extension of the value set taken into consideration by actors, and expansion of actor types involved.

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