Deliberative Democracy in the Public Sphere: Achieving Deliberative Outcomes in Mass Publics

    Project: Research

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    Description

    This project will investigate the mechanisms and settings that facilitate the same deliberative outcomes achieved in small group deliberation among the wider population, or public sphere, using the issue of climate change policy as a case study. It will address the question systematically by testing different kinds of dialogue and deliberative design features for their transformative effect. It will then explore which features can be harnessed to scale up deliberation into the public sphere. The implications cover a wide variety of issues, from the role of the media, the internet, and the potential for minipublics to act as proxy opinion leaders. It will also critically assess deliberative capacity under existing institutional settings.
    StatusFinished
    Effective start/end date1/07/1228/02/14

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