The Role and the Future of Deliberative Mini-publics: A Citizen Perspective

Jacquet, Vincent

doi:10.1177/0032321718794358

“…Furthermore, the effects were similar across policy issues and process preferences, suggesting that the effects are a relatively stable in society. The results are therefore able to give new insights into what type of participatory mechanisms ordinary citizens want to see introduced on a more detailed level compared to previous research that have examined either broad process preferences (Bengtsson and Christensen 2016;Gherghina and Geissel 2017;Font, Wojcieszak, and Navarro 2015) or attitudes to specific mechanisms (Goldberg, Wyss, and Bächtiger 2019;Jacquet 2018;Christensen and von Schoultz 2019).…”

Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…Talk-centric theories focus on the communicative processes of opinion and will-formation that precede voting. This perspective incorporates different versions of deliberative democracy whereby participation should aim to ensure the quality of decisions by changing preferences through a process of deliberation (Bengtsson and Christensen 2016;Setälä 2017;Kuyper and Wolkenstein 2019;Jacquet 2018).…”

Section: What Participatory Mechanisms Do People Want?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This approach provides us with insights into what democratic benefits a participatory mechanism can provide but fails to consider how citizens evaluate these mechanisms and their characteristics. Other studies examine popular attitudes towards specific types of participatory mechanisms (Goldberg, Wyss, and Bächtiger 2019;Jacquet 2018;Christensen and von Schoultz 2019), or differences in process preferences, i.e. how political decision should be made (Bengtsson and Christensen 2016;Gherghina and Geissel 2017;Font, Wojcieszak, and Navarro 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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How citizens evaluate participatory processes: a conjoint analysis

Christensen

¹

2020

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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This study examines how characteristics of participatory processes affect citizens’ evaluations of such processes and thereby establish what kind of participatory process citizens demand. The literature on democratic innovations has proposed different criteria for evaluating participatory innovations. What remains unclear, however, is how citizens evaluate these participatory mechanisms. This is here examined in a conjoint analysis embedded in a representative survey of the Finnish population (n = 1050). The conjoint analysis examines the impact of inclusiveness, popular control, considered judgment, transparency, efficiency, and transferability on citizens’ evaluations of participatory processes. Furthermore, it is examined whether the evaluations differ by the policy issues and process preferences of the respondents. The results show that people want transparent participatory processes with face-to-face interaction among participants and expert advice to deal with complicated issues. The participatory processes should also be advisory and should not include too many meetings. These effects appear to be uniform across policy issues and do not depend on the process preferences of citizens.

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“…Furthermore, the effects were similar across policy issues and process preferences, suggesting that the effects are a relatively stable in society. The results are therefore able to give new insights into what type of participatory mechanisms ordinary citizens want to see introduced on a more detailed level compared to previous research that have examined either broad process preferences (Bengtsson and Christensen 2016;Gherghina and Geissel 2017;Font, Wojcieszak, and Navarro 2015) or attitudes to specific mechanisms (Goldberg, Wyss, and Bächtiger 2019;Jacquet 2018;Christensen and von Schoultz 2019).…”

Section: Discussion Of Resultsmentioning

confidence: 85%

“…This approach provides us with insights into what democratic benefits a participatory mechanism can provide but fails to consider how citizens evaluate these mechanisms and their characteristics. Other studies examine popular attitudes towards specific types of participatory mechanisms (Goldberg, Wyss, and Bächtiger 2019;Jacquet 2018;Christensen and von Schoultz 2019), or differences in process preferences, i.e. how political decision should be made (Bengtsson and Christensen 2016;Gherghina and Geissel 2017;Font, Wojcieszak, and Navarro 2015).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

How citizens evaluate participatory processes: A conjoint analysis

Christensen¹

2019

Preprint

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This study examines how characteristics of participatory processes affect citizens' evaluations of such processes and thereby establish what kind of participatory process citizens demand. The literature on democratic innovations has proposed different criteria for evaluating participatory innovations. What remains unclear, however, is how citizens evaluate these participatory mechanisms. This is here examined in a conjoint analysis embedded in a representative survey of the Finnish population (n=1050). The conjoint examines the impact of inclusiveness, popular control, considered judgement, transparency, efficiency, and transferability on citizens' evaluations of participatory processes. Furthermore, it is examined whether the evaluations differ by policy issue and process preference of the respondents. The results show that people want transparent participatory processes with face-to-face interaction among participants and expert advice to deal with complicated issues. The participatory processes should also be advisory and not include too many meetings. These effects appear to be uniform across policy issues and do no depend on the process preferences of citizens.

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Policy implementation in crisis: Lessons from the Philippines

Zech

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Eastin

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Bonotti

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2023

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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Like many countries, the Philippines faced severe economic, social, and political challenges during the COVID‐19 pandemic. In March 2020 President Duterte issued an executive order announcing a national state of emergency that introduced a highly restrictive system for community quarantine and lockdown. While these measures led international observers to rank the Philippinesʼ pandemic response among the worldʼs most stringent, it is unclear whether subsequent health outcomes were sufficient to justify the severity. In this article, we evaluate discrepancies between COVID‐19 policy goals and outcomes in the Philippines via a compelling but under‐utilized method of democratic deliberation, the ‘mini‐public’. The mini‐public that we held brought together a random sample of citizens who heard testimony from local public health experts and political leaders, and then used this information in conjunction with their own experiences to identify policy shortcomings and develop recommendations for policymakers. The most substantial challenges to the governmentʼs pandemic response were reported to be inadequate enforcement and under‐resourcing of government officials tasked with policy implementation. These challenges created a disconnect between policy objectives and their performance in practice. We conclude by summarizing the mini‐public participantsʼ recommendations.

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The Role and the Future of Deliberative Mini-publics: A Citizen Perspective

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How citizens evaluate participatory processes: A conjoint analysis

Policy implementation in crisis: Lessons from the Philippines

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