Oral Democracy

Sanyal, Paromita; Rao, Vijayendra

doi:10.1017/9781139095716

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“…The study outcomes are very supportive of the use of deliberative processes in decisions concerning the achievement of shared collective goals. Recent research suggests that government policy does have substantial potential to influence the quality of deliberation (Sanyal and Rao 2018), and so an emphasis on reason-based argumentation could yield concrete improvements in outcomes. However, those planning to design participatory decision processes such as these should still carefully weigh both the costs and benefits of the process in their design.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

Grillos

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Citizen participation in decision making has been widely lauded as a method for improving societal outcomes. Deliberative discussion, in particular, is believed to be more transformative than a mere aggregation of individual preferences, leading to more socially optimal decision making and behavior. I report the results from a laboratory experiment with 570 subjects in Nairobi, directly testing the effect of participation in deliberative group decision making on collective outcomes. Participants engage in a group task to earn compensation toward a shared group fund. Randomly assigned treatments vary according to whether decision making over the task to be completed involves: (1) external assignment; (2) non-deliberative majority voting; or (3) consensus through deliberative discussion. I find that deliberation improves collective decision making. Deliberation is also associated with changes in preferences, greater agreement with decision outcomes, and greater perceived fairness. Evidence for behavior change is weaker, but there is some support for further research into the relationship between preference change and behavior change.

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Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

Grillos

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…It is also important that leaders show interest in citizens being actively linked to the exercise of political power in order to legitimize their governance, which is why they must facilitate different forms of active political involvement for citizens (Sanyal y Rao, 2018). Citizens have understood that "political-administrative institutions do not respond to the challenges of a context plagued by uncertainty" (Pardo y Abellán, 2016: 69) and therefore a greater civic commitment and greater participation in public institutions is required.…”

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La transparencia de las administraciones locales colombianas

Lalinde¹,

Orozco

2022

RET

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La transparencia de las administraciones públicas juega un papel fundamental en la gobernanza democrática ya que aporta valores intangibles como la credibilidad y la reputación. Para evaluar la información publicada en los sitios web de las alcaldías de los distritos de Colombia, los municipios más importantes y con condiciones especiales, se adaptó a la legislación colombiana el método Infoparticipa, previamente desarrollado para evaluar la transparencia y calidad de la información, así como las características de sus administraciones locales. Los resultados, que mostraron un nivel de cumplimiento muy bajo, se compararon con los obtenidos previamente en el análisis de los sitios web de los municipios de España y Ecuador utilizando la misma metodología. Lo que demuestra que hay una falta de actitud proactiva en los tres casos, lo que atenta contra la democracia y sus instituciones. Concluimos señalando que las leyes de transparencia se utilizan como un artificio político, ya que sus obligaciones y principios no se ponen en práctica, atentando contra el derecho de los ciudadanos al acceso a la información pública.

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“…One can imagine horizontal conflicts where, for example, marginalised communities have competing interests. This is evident in cases of community-driven development programmes using deliberative procedures where participants embody different layers of marginalisation (see Sanyal and Rao, 2018). Mothers make a case to allocate the village budget to create childcare facilities so they can take part in economic production while peasants argue for a bridge so their produce can reach the market in time, while ethnic minorities question the preferential treatment of other communities in development programmes.…”

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Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems

Curato

2020

Politics

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The field of deliberative democracy has long recognised the role of interruptive protests to make polities more sensitive to good reasons. But how exactly interruptive protests enhance deliberative systems remain an open question. ‘Non-deliberative acts may have deliberative consequences’ is a crucial line of argument in the deliberative systems literature, but the precise character of these consequences is yet to be spelled out. In this article, I describe three ways in which consequences of interruptive protests enhance the deliberative system. I argue that interruptive protests can redistribute (1) voice and visibility, (2) attention, and (3) deliberative agency which, in turn, can lay bare the weaknesses of a dysfunctional deliberative system. The arguments I put forward are based on interpretive case studies focusing on protest movements in the Philippines and Puerto Rico in the aftermath of record-breaking hurricanes. Overall, this paper seeks to clarify the relationship between deliberative politics and protest action, by identifying the distinctive contributions of interruptive protests in redistributing power in dysfunctional deliberative systems.

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Oral Democracy

Cited by 20 publications

References 80 publications

Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

Participation Improves Collective Decisions (When It Involves Deliberation): Experimental Evidence From Kenya

La transparencia de las administraciones locales colombianas

Interruptive protests in dysfunctional deliberative systems

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