Public support for deliberative citizens' assemblies selected through sortition: Evidence from 15 countries

Autor: Jean-Benoit Pilet, Damien Bol, Davide Vittori, Emilien Paulis
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: European Journal of Political Research
ISSN: 1475-6765
0304-4130
Popis: As representative democracy is increasingly criticized, a new institution is becoming popular among academics and practitioners: deliberative citizens’ assemblies. To evaluate whether these assemblies can deliver their promise of re-engaging the dissatisfied of representative politics, we explore who supports them and why. We build on a unique survey conducted with representative samples of 15 Western European countries and find, first, that the most supportive respondents are those who are less educated, have a low sense of political competence and an anti-elite sentiment. Thus, support does come from the dissatisfied. Second, we find that this support is for a part ‘outcome contingent’, in the sense that it changes with people’s expectations regarding the policy outcome from deliberative citizens’ assemblies. This second finding nuances the first one and suggests that while deliberative citizens’ assemblies convey some hope to re-engaged disengaged citizens, this is conditioned to the hope of a favourable outcome.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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