Jury Service and Electoral Participation: A Test of the Participation Hypothesis

Gastil, John; Deess, E. Pierre; Weiser, Philip J.; Larner, Jordan

doi:10.2139/ssrn.977775

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“…; Cutler and Hughes ; Consolini ; Shuman and Hamilton ; Durand, Bearden, and Gustafson ; Allen ; Pabst Munsterman, and Mount , ; Richert ) and encourages future civic engagement (Gastil et al. ; Gastil and Weiser ; Gastil, Deess, and Weiser ; Freie ; Finkel ; Barber ; Pateman ), factors that may prompt legal compliance (Tyler , ; Manza and Uggen ; Tyler, Casper, and Fisher ). Yet, felon jury exclusion statutes eliminate the possibility that jury service will effect change among convicted felons.…”

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A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?

Binnall¹

2013

Law & Policy

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“…Moreover, research suggests they turn away citizens who could most benefit from inclusion (Gastil et al. ), and to justify doing so, claim that felons pose a uniquely serious threat to the jury process. This study does not support that claim.…”

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A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?

Binnall¹

2013

Law & Policy

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“…We do so to address the rationales of advocates and critics of deliberation, which have less to do with whose preferences are implemented than with deliberation's potential to enlarge or undermine democratic and republican civic capacities (Fishkin 1995;Gastil et al 2008; see also Pateman 1970). This approach also follows studies of women's political participation such as Burns, Schlozman, and Verba (2001, 6), which treat political participation as a form of symbolic authority and civic standing.…”

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Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation

2012

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C an men and women have equal levels of voice and authority in deliberation or does deliberation exacerbate gender inequality? Does increasing women's descriptive representation in deliberation increase their voice and authority? We answer these questions and move beyond the debate by hypothesizing that the group's gender composition interacts with its decision rule to exacerbate or erase the inequalities. We test this hypothesis and various alternatives, using experimental data with many groups and links between individuals' attitudes and speech. We find a substantial gender gap in voice and authority, but as hypothesized, it disappears under unanimous rule and few women, or under majority rule and many women. Deliberative design can avoid inequality by fitting institutional procedure to the social context of the situation.

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“…As a final consideration, it warrants noting that recent studies have found a connection between recent jury service and more consistent participation in electoral participation. From this perspective, juror participation can be the gateway to a stronger commitment to other citizenship tasks (Gastil, Dees, & Weiser, 2002;Gastil, Dees, Weiser, & Meade, 2008, 2010.…”

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Jury Service as Civic Engagement

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Mondak

2011

American Politics Research

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Much like other forms of civic engagement, many Americans apparently perceive jury "duty" as optional, a circumstance that often has left courts struggling to seat juries. Considering how individuals orient themselves to this often neglected form of civic responsibility facilitates a more holistic understanding of citizen behavior and its antecedents. In this article, we explore the possible effects of resources, barriers and personality traits on jury summons compliance. Data are drawn from a field experiment and corresponding survey conducted in the State of Washington. Results reveal that cultural/linguistic factors act as strong barriers to jury service and that people's personality traits influence summons compliance. Efforts to reduce resource constraints via heightened juror pay brought no positive effect on compliance rates.

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Jury Service and Electoral Participation: A Test of the Participation Hypothesis

Cited by 14 publications

References 34 publications

A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?

A Field Study of the Presumptively Biased: Is There Empirical Support for Excluding Convicted Felons from Jury Service?

Gender Inequality in Deliberative Participation

Jury Service as Civic Engagement

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