Perceived discourse quality in the Irish Citizens' Assembly deliberations on abortion

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dc.contributor.authorFarrell, David M.
dc.contributor.authorSuiter, Jane
dc.contributor.authorCunningham, Kevin
dc.contributor.authorHarris, Clodagh
dc.contributor.funderHorizon 2020en
dc.contributor.funderEuropean Cooperation in Science and Technologyen
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-16T11:01:42Z
dc.date.available2022-05-16T11:01:42Z
dc.date.issued2022-04
dc.date.updated2022-05-16T10:48:12Z
dc.descriptionWorking Paperen
dc.description.abstractThis 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’.en
dc.description.sponsorshipHorizon 2020 (Cost Action CA 17135)en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
dc.description.versionPublished Versionen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.citationFarrell, 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)en
dc.identifier.endpage23en
dc.identifier.startpage1en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/13182
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEuropean Commissionen
dc.relation.ispartofConstitution-Making and Deliberative Democracy Working Paper Series
dc.relation.ispartofseriesConstDelib Working Paper Series;17
dc.relation.urihttps://constdelib.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/WP17-2022-CA17135-1.pdf
dc.rights© 2022, the Authors.en
dc.subjectDeliberationen
dc.subjectCitizen assemblyen
dc.subjectDiscourse qualityen
dc.subjectAbortionen
dc.subjectIrelanden
dc.titlePerceived discourse quality in the Irish Citizens' Assembly deliberations on abortionen
dc.typeWorking paperen
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