Public Deliberation or Popular Votes? Measuring the Performance of Different Types of Participatory Democracy

Geißel, Brigitte; Michels, Ank; Silagadze, Nanuli; Schauman, Jonas; Grönlund, Kimmo

doi:10.1080/00344893.2023.2213698

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“…A different approach is pursued by the advocates of deliberative democracy. Rather than voting on a given set of decision alternatives (policy options, candidates, legislative proposals), the emphasis is on the specifics of decision alternatives, along with their formation and modification ensuing from deliberations and negotiations [1][2][3][4][5]. The deliberative institutions are occasionally advocated as devices to deal with the many negative results achieved in the social choice theory, notably Arrow's impossibility theorem or the Gibbard-Satterthwaite theorem [6][7][8][9].…”

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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms

Nurmi

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Deliberative democracy aims at reaching collective decisions through mechanisms that involve flexible opinions, variable alternative sets and information gathering in the process of decision making as opposed to exogenously fixed alternative sets and preference rankings. Deliberative democracy includes elements derived from bargaining and negotiation. Among its virtues, some proponents of deliberative democracy have included the possibility that several important negative results of the theory of voting can be avoided. The basic stratagem is to dismiss the universal domain condition typically assumed in social choice results. Thus, the validity of the results escaped from is obviously not in question. The position taken in this paper is that, while in some respects plausible, the escape argument is based on a too narrow view of the incompatibility results of the social choice theory. Some fundamental paradoxes remain beyond the reach of the deliberative techniques and are even exacerbated by them. That said, the deliberative approach can certainly be adopted for making voting alternatives more meaningful to those involved.

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Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms

Nurmi

2023

Behavioral Sciences

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Participation in Energy Transitions: A Comparison of Policy Styles

Radtke,

Renn

2024

Energy Research & Social Science

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Limited Congruence: Citizens’ Attitudes and Party Rhetoric About Referendums and Deliberative Practices

Gherghina,

Geissel,

Henger

2024

PaG

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Both citizens and political parties refer to novel participatory practices in the contemporary crisis of representative democracy. Survey data indicate a growing demand for such practices within the electorate, while political parties have also begun discussing them more frequently. However, previous studies on citizens’ attitudes and parties’ discourse on democratic innovations rarely speak to each other. It remains unclear whether citizens’ attitudes and parties’ discourse are congruent. This article seeks to address this gap in the literature and analyses the extent to which political parties reflect citizens’ attitudes towards referendums and citizens’ deliberation in their manifestos. We cover 15 political parties in Germany and the UK. Our analysis uses party manifesto data between 2010 and 2024, and data from surveys conducted on national representative samples. Our findings reveal that political parties and citizens rarely have congruent approaches towards referendums and deliberative practices. People’s enthusiasm about referendums is hardly reflected in parties’ rhetoric, but the latter reacts gradually to the public appetite for deliberation. There are visible differences between opposition parties and those in government.

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Public Deliberation or Popular Votes? Measuring the Performance of Different Types of Participatory Democracy

Cited by 3 publications

References 60 publications

Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms

Deliberative Democracy and Incompatibilities of Choice Norms

Participation in Energy Transitions: A Comparison of Policy Styles

Limited Congruence: Citizens’ Attitudes and Party Rhetoric About Referendums and Deliberative Practices

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