La question cachée du G1000

Comment refaire société ?

Abstract

We examine the « G1000 », a participative democracy initiative which took place during the 2007-2011 Belgian political crisis, in order to show how difficult it is for such initiatives to obtain anything else but a disdainful stance from the political and opinion leaders. In spite of the loss of impetus that plagues the Belgian representative system, political leaders still fail to take the constructive potential of citizen-led projects seriously – and, unfortunately, this posture seems unlikely to change, given its long history.