Deliberative mini-publics

Kimmo Grönlund and Maija Setälä

Chapter 19 in Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions, 2024, pp 294-309 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) are democratic innovations through which a random sample of lay citizens are gathered to deliberate in small groups on political topics. There are various models for DMPs. This chapter presents the general idea behind DMPs together with their goals and characteristics, as well as discussing their ‘internal’ and ‘external’ effects. In other words, we review processes of taking part in DMPs and the effects of deliberation on participants, placing them within the broader institutional setting of a political system. We also discuss their impacts on policies and society at large. Finally, the prospects of DMPs are evaluated based on empirical and normative studies.

Keywords: Politics; and; Public; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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