Assessing the impact of deliberation and information on opinion change: a quasi-experiment in public deliberation

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dc.contributor.authorO'Malley, Eoin
dc.contributor.authorFarrell, David M.
dc.contributor.authorSuiter, Jane
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-25T14:04:33Z
dc.date.available2012-06-25T14:04:33Z
dc.date.copyright2012
dc.date.issued2012-06-21
dc.date.updated2012-06-21T11:14:56Z
dc.description.abstractDeliberative democracy has become fashionable for many and it has been used in some places to solve real-world policy problems. However measuring the ‘success’ of deliberative democracy is not clearly achievable. For most ‘success’ is measured in terms of opinion change, but these are only rarely measured against control groups, and in particular there is no way of knowing if the opinion change took place because of the deliberation or because of information they received through the deliberation process. Exercises in deliberation seem to represent one big treatment. But we would want to separate out the component parts of the treatment. This paper outlines the results of an experiment in which deliberation took place in a pilot Citizens’ Assembly in Ireland. As part of this we measured the impact using pre and post-test controls, including a control group given the information the CA participants received, but without the deliberation. The results of the experiment reveal that there is a deliberation effect separate to the information effect.en
dc.description.statusNot peer revieweden
dc.description.urihttp://www.epsanet.org/en
dc.description.versionDraften
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationFARRELL, D.M., O’MALLEY, E. & SUITER, J. 2012. Assessing the impact of deliberation and information on opinion change: a quasi-experiment in public deliberation. 2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association. Berlin, 21-23 June 2012.en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/610
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartof2nd Annual General Conference of the European Political Science Association. Berlin, 21-23 June 2012.
dc.relation.urihttp://www.epsanet.org/conferences/general-conference-2012.html
dc.rights©2012, The Authors.en
dc.subjectMass participationen
dc.subjectBehavioral politicsen
dc.subject.lcshDeliberative democracyen
dc.subject.lcshGroup decision makingen
dc.titleAssessing the impact of deliberation and information on opinion change: a quasi-experiment in public deliberationen
dc.typeConference itemen
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