Policy Pathways, Policy Networks, and Citizen Deliberation: Disseminating the Results of World Wide Views on Global Warming in the United States Jason Delborne* Assistant Professor Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado, USA delborne@mines.edu Jen Schneider Division of Liberal Arts and International Studies Colorado School of Mines Golden, Colorado, U.S.A. Ravtosh Bal School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Susan Cozzens School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Richard Worthington Department of Politics Pomona College Claremont, California, U.S.A. Keywords: citizen deliberation; climate change; consensus conference; policy pathway; policy network; deliberative democracy; World Wide Views Abstract Leading a coalition spanning 38 countries, the Danish Board of Technology organized “World Wide Views on Global Warming” (WWViews) on September 26, 2009. WWViews represented a pioneering effort to hold simultaneous citizen deliberations focusing on questions of climate change policy addressed at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in December 2009 (COP15). Sponsors and organizers envisioned WWViews as a means to affect the COP15 negotiations, and the project included numerous strategies to influence policymaking. This paper examines the success of such strategies in the United States through the lens of “policy pathways,” routes of influence to affect the behavior of policymakers and policymaking bodies. Our analysis suggests the difficulty of connecting citizen deliberations to meaningful policy pathways, and the importance of recognizing and enlisting policy networks, which we define as the collection of relationships, nodes, or pre- existing organizational ties that can be mobilized in the service of agenda- or alternative- setting. Focusing on policy networks represents a promising strategy for planners and organizers of citizen forums, consensus conferences, or other deliberative gatherings to affect political debates that engage science and technology. This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. The final, definitive version of this document can be found online at Science & Public Policy (SPP), published by Oxford University Press. Copyright restrictions may apply. doi: 10.1093/scipol/scs124 1