Perceived discourse quality in the Irish Citizens' Assembly deliberations on abortion
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2022-04
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Farrell, David M.
Suiter, Jane
Cunningham, Kevin
Harris, Clodagh
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European Commission
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This paper contributes to a growing interest in process related approaches in the study of deliberative mini-publics. Its focus is on the perceived quality of deliberation in the Irish Citizens’ Assembly’s discussions on Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion, which occurred over the course of five weekends of meetings from late 2016 through to the spring of 2017, culminating in recommendations for a referendum to remove Ireland’s constitutional ban on abortion. This paper makes use of survey data to examine the Citizens’ Assembly’s members’ perceptions of the quality of the deliberative process. We find that, by one measure of discourse quality (individual access to the conversation), levels of satisfaction were greatest among the less educated. Over time the levels of discourse quality (again by this measure) rose particularly among the minority of Assembly members who were ‘pro-life’.
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Deliberation , Citizen assembly , Discourse quality , Abortion , Ireland
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Farrell, D. M., Suiter, J., Cunningham, K. and Harris, C. (2022) 'Perceived discourse quality in the Irish Citizens' Assembly deliberations on abortion', ConstDelib Working Paper Series, 17, pp. 1-23. Available at: https://constdelib.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP17-2022-CA17135-1.pdf (Accessed: 16 May 2022)
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