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Bridging deliberative democracy and crisis management scholarship, we construct theoretical expectations about the role of deliberative minipublics in fostering public compliance with difficult political decisions. Our expectations are tested with a randomized cross-national survey experiment (United States and United Kingdom, N = 2088), in which respondents read a realistic news item depicting a political decision-making process leading to the extension of COVID-19 lockdown measures that follows either a (1) citizen deliberation, (2) public consultation, (3) politician deliberation, or (4) nothing. The findings show minipublics are unlikely to foster public compliance during a health crisis. On the contrary, reading about a minipublic could decrease compliance when individuals are distrustful of minipublics. This study has implications for citizen participation, deliberation, and leadership during future pandemics. This research was undertaken as part of the Provenance project, which is funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme (grant 825227) and by the DCU Covid-19 Research and Innovation Hub. Jane also wants to acknowledge the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under the Grant Agreement 959234. |
