🗞️🤓April newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network including events, publications, deliberative workshops, resources, new initiatives and research projects #democracy #participation #deliberation #commons #delibwave #demopart #demoinno
Available here 👉 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;5576002d.2403p
📣 📰 , "L’éternel recommencement des politiques locales de démocratie participative : l’expérimentation permanente contre l’institutionnalisation". Gouvernement et Action Publique, 2023/4. https://www.cairn.info/tap-i0shab7811oqm (accès jusqu'au 29.02)
The never-ending story of local participatory democracy policies: permanent experimentation vs. institutionalization.
#sciencepolitique #politicalscience #sociologie #sociology #demopart #participatory #democracy
Evolving US media and political systems, coupled with escalating misinformation campaigns, have left the public divided over objective facts featured in policy debates. The public also has lost much of its confidence in the institutions designed to adjudicate those epistemic debates. To counter this threat, civic entrepreneurs have devised institutional reforms to revitalize democratic policymaking. One promising intervention is the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), which has been adopted into law in Oregon and tested in several other states, as well as Switzerland and Finland. Each CIR gathers a demographically stratified random sample of registered voters to form a deliberative panel, which hears from pro and con advocates and neutral experts while assessing the merits of a ballot measure. After four-to-five days of deliberation, each CIR writes an issue guide for voters that identifies key factual findings, along with the most important pro and con arguments. This study pools the results of survey experiments conducted on thirteen CIRs held from 2010 to 2018, resulting in a dataset that includes 67,120 knowledge scores collected from 10,872 registered voters exposed to 82 empirical claims. Analysis shows that reading the CIR guide had a positive effect on voters’ policy knowledge, with stronger effects for those holding greater faith in deliberation. We found little evidence of directional motivated reasoning but some evidence that reading the CIR statement can spark an accuracy motivation. Overall, the main results show how trust in peer deliberation provides one path out of the maze of misinformation shaping voter decisions during elections.
🥳 Festive newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network featuring:
training courses,
events,
awards,
publications,
tools/guides,
public contracts,
podcasts
and a PhD scholarship
#democracy #demoinno #demopart #commons #participation #delibwave
Available here 👉🏽👉🏽 https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;40162a12.2312p
📣 Fully funded #PhD
at the University of Edinburgh:
"Enabling #sustainability transitions: identifying & challenging glass ceilings to sustainable futures”
🗓️ Application by 4 January
🧐 Working with Dr. Seb O'Connor, Dr. Clare Barnes, Prof. Klaus Glenk & Prof. Oliver Escobar #demopart
#ClimateAction #ClimateCrisis #Research #Academic #PhdStudentship
ℹ️ Information 👉🏽 https://ed.ac.uk/e4-dtp/how-to-apply/supervisor-led-projects/project?item=1616
🗓️🗞️November newsletter of the Citizen Participation Network🤓
featuring events, projects, publications, conferences, announcements and podcasts across the field of democratic innovation
#demopart #delibwave #democracy #demoinno #democraticinnovation
#research
Open access 👉🏽 https://jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;d27039b0.2311p
📑 Report of the UK Citizens' Economic Council on the Cost of Living Crisis now out ‼️
It remains unusual to involve citizens via #minipublics in economic policy-making.
This research shows the potential of public deliberation on spending, taxation & public investment👇🏽
📢 Just out 🗞️
October bulletin of the Citizen Participation Network, featuring courses, resources, events and publications at the intersection of participatory/deliberative #democracy and research/ practice
#demopart #delibwave #OpenAccess
Available here 👉🏽👉🏽👉🏽
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=PPN-CITIZEN-PARTICIPATION-GROUP;db26eab9.2310p
new from John Gastil, Kristinn Már Ársælsson, Katie Knobloch, David Brinker, Justin Reedy, Stephanie Burkhalter, and me, in PLOS ONE:
Deliberative panels as a source of public knowledge: A large-sample test of the Citizens’ Initiative Review
#deliberation #demopart #democracy #participation #minipublics #polcomm #polcom #polsci #polisci
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0288188
Evolving US media and political systems, coupled with escalating misinformation campaigns, have left the public divided over objective facts featured in policy debates. The public also has lost much of its confidence in the institutions designed to adjudicate those epistemic debates. To counter this threat, civic entrepreneurs have devised institutional reforms to revitalize democratic policymaking. One promising intervention is the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR), which has been adopted into law in Oregon and tested in several other states, as well as Switzerland and Finland. Each CIR gathers a demographically stratified random sample of registered voters to form a deliberative panel, which hears from pro and con advocates and neutral experts while assessing the merits of a ballot measure. After four-to-five days of deliberation, each CIR writes an issue guide for voters that identifies key factual findings, along with the most important pro and con arguments. This study pools the results of survey experiments conducted on thirteen CIRs held from 2010 to 2018, resulting in a dataset that includes 67,120 knowledge scores collected from 10,872 registered voters exposed to 82 empirical claims. Analysis shows that reading the CIR guide had a positive effect on voters’ policy knowledge, with stronger effects for those holding greater faith in deliberation. We found little evidence of directional motivated reasoning but some evidence that reading the CIR statement can spark an accuracy motivation. Overall, the main results show how trust in peer deliberation provides one path out of the maze of misinformation shaping voter decisions during elections.
Citizen Participation
RC Richards
Guillaume