Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions

Deliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of legitimate decision-making among citizens at large remains unclear, given especially that existing studies have not co...

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Autores: Germann, Micha, Marien, Sofie, Muradova, Lala
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repositorio:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/57682
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/57682
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00323217221137444
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mini-publics
Deliberative democracy
Participatory democracy
Legitimacy perceptions
Procedural fairness
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spelling Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptionsGermann, MichaMarien, SofieMuradova, LalaMini-publicsDeliberative democracyParticipatory democracyLegitimacy perceptionsProcedural fairnessDeliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of legitimate decision-making among citizens at large remains unclear, given especially that existing studies have not considered the potentially damaging effects of mini-public recommendations not being followed. We designed, pre-registered, and ran a survey experiment in Ireland to test the effects of mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions conditional on whether or not their non-binding policy recommendations are honored (N = 1309). We find that mini-publics increase legitimacy perceptions among the broader citizenry; however, these beneficial effects are largely limited to situations in which their recommendations are honored. Additional results suggest that it makes no difference whether mini-public recommendations are overturned by elected representatives or by citizens in a referendum. Finally, we find that the legitimacy-enhancing effects of participatory processes are driven by citizens with low political trust.The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This project has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program (grant agreement No 759736) as well as the British Academy (SRG20\200260).SAGE Publications202320232024info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionapplication/pdfapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10230/57682http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/00323217221137444reponame:Repositorio Digital de la UPFinstname:Universitat Pompeu FabraInglésPolitical Studies. 2024;72(2):677-700info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/759736© The Author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/576822026-06-12T07:21:37Z
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title Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
spellingShingle Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
Germann, Micha
Mini-publics
Deliberative democracy
Participatory democracy
Legitimacy perceptions
Procedural fairness
title_short Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
title_full Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
title_fullStr Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
title_full_unstemmed Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
title_sort Scaling up? Unpacking the effect of deliberative mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Germann, Micha
Marien, Sofie
Muradova, Lala
author Germann, Micha
author_facet Germann, Micha
Marien, Sofie
Muradova, Lala
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Muradova, Lala
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Mini-publics
Deliberative democracy
Participatory democracy
Legitimacy perceptions
Procedural fairness
topic Mini-publics
Deliberative democracy
Participatory democracy
Legitimacy perceptions
Procedural fairness
description Deliberative mini-publics are increasingly used to try to tackle public discontent with the functioning of democracy. However, the ability of mini-publics to increase perceptions of legitimate decision-making among citizens at large remains unclear, given especially that existing studies have not considered the potentially damaging effects of mini-public recommendations not being followed. We designed, pre-registered, and ran a survey experiment in Ireland to test the effects of mini-publics on legitimacy perceptions conditional on whether or not their non-binding policy recommendations are honored (N = 1309). We find that mini-publics increase legitimacy perceptions among the broader citizenry; however, these beneficial effects are largely limited to situations in which their recommendations are honored. Additional results suggest that it makes no difference whether mini-public recommendations are overturned by elected representatives or by citizens in a referendum. Finally, we find that the legitimacy-enhancing effects of participatory processes are driven by citizens with low political trust.
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