Studying public deliberation after the systemic turn: the crucial role for interpretive research

Ercan, Selen A.; Hendriks, Carolyn M.

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“…Interpretive research aims to elicit participants' own understandings of social and political phenomena, and to draw on the narratives they tell to make sense of their experience in order to explain outcomes. Interpretive research has been at the forefront of empirical research into deliberative systems because it is well-suited to unpacking the rich features of deliberative practices in context (see Ercan et al, 2017). As such, it is ideally suited to exploring and teasing out the dynamics of an open-ended, organic process like NHSC.…”

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Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen

Dean

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2019

Political Studies

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What does it mean to design democratic innovation from a deliberative systems perspective? The demand of the deliberative systems approach that we turn from the single forum towards the broader system has largely been embraced by those interested in designing institutions for citizen participation. Nevertheless, there has been no analysis of the practical implications for democratic innovation. Is it possible to design differentiated but interconnected participatory and deliberative settings? Does this better connect democratic innovations to mass politics? Does it promote greater legitimacy? This article analyses one such attempt to design a systems-oriented democratic innovation: the ambitious NHS Citizen initiative. Our analysis demonstrates, while NHS Citizen pioneered some cutting-edge participatory design, it ultimately failed to resolve (and in some cases exacerbated) well-known obstacles to institutionalisation as well as generating new challenges. To effectively realise democratic renewal and reform, systems-oriented democratic innovation must evolve strategies to meet these challenges.

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Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen

Dean

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2019

Political Studies

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“…In this regard, the case of Hilary Clinton along with FPPP is considered. The selection of this research design is further derived from previous researches that have used the same study design and obtained cohesive results (Karpf et al, 2015;Ercan, Hendriks, & Boswell, 2017).…”

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Identifying Elements of Gender References, Persuasive Techniques and Social Interaction Associated with Political Discourse: The Case of Hillary Clinton

AlQahtani¹

2019

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Discourse is an important tool discussing social relations in the discursive patterns. A well-designed discourse can easily dominate people and can construct their perceptions. Therefore, discourse is critical in the political world when one uses it to communicate ideas and visions to the people. Therefore, the present study aims to identify the elements of gender references, persuasive techniques, and social interactions associated with political discourse of Hillary Clinton. The study has used the framework of conversation analysis for studying a total of three interviews and five debates of Hillary Clinton. The interviews and recording were extracted from YouTube and then transcribed and interpreted by converting them into text. The findings have revealed a significant use of persuasive techniques and social interaction in Clinton’s political discourse. The results also imply that using affiliation strategy, candidates can manipulate people. The study concludes that this strategy is more effective in representing oneself as truthful as compared to conventional narratives.

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“…Citizen empowerment is a crucial device in participatory governance (Bevir and Rhodes 2016;Dryzek 2001;Fischer 2012;Fung 2006;Hajer 2009). While policy studies show the indisputable value of citizen empowerment for public participation (Barnes 2008;Hunter 2015;Newman et al 2004) and for democratic policy processes (Dodge 2015;Dryzek 2001;Ercan, Hendriks, and Boswell 2015;Fischer 2009b;Fung 2007;Healey 2015), its postcommunist shape in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has been only minimally addressed. Some analyses focused on state authorities' top-down activities toward public engagement (see, e.g.…”

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Czech postcommunist trouble with participatory governance. Toward an analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses

Durnová

2019

Policy Studies

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The article uses the postcommunist context to rethink the argumentative arena of current participatory governance. While citizen empowerment is a crucial component of participatory governance, it has not received much attention in either the policy or the research of the CEE region. Comparing two Czech prominent public controversies, the analysis reveals a mediating rejection of citizen empowerment because it is seen as being fundamentally opposed to modernization. Modernization is a powerful narrative justifying the postcommunist transformation as a supreme policy goal, being used as an argument for the technocratic style of governing. The analysis thus suggests that attention to cultural contingency of participatory governance is needed, and it proposes analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Studying public deliberation after the systemic turn: the crucial role for interpretive research

Cited by 76 publications

References 35 publications

Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen

Designing Democratic Innovations as Deliberative Systems: The Ambitious Case of NHS Citizen

Identifying Elements of Gender References, Persuasive Techniques and Social Interaction Associated with Political Discourse: The Case of Hillary Clinton

Czech postcommunist trouble with participatory governance. Toward an analysis of the cultural agency of policy discourses

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