To Deliberate or Not to Deliberate: Non-Participation of Randomly Selected Citizens in Two Mini-Publics
(2015) ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops — Location: Warsaw (29.March.2015)
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- This paper offers an empirical analysis of (non-)participants deciding (not) to deliberate in two mini-publics in Belgium, the so-called G1000 and the G100. These deliberative experiences were built on the assumption that people want to be involved in political deliberation about public issues. Yet, the following question remains: Why does the very large majority of the population refuse to participate in such mini-publics when they are randomly selected? Indeed, when random selection is used to select participants, organizers always have difficulty composing a diversified panel of citizens. Analyzing in-depth interviews with participants and above all non-participants, this paper shows that motives of acceptance and non-acceptance are always related to the evaluation of the current and ideal political process and actors. Different conceptions of democracy shape the interpretation of the mini-publics, which results in different kinds of participation and nonparticipation.
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Jacquet, V. (2015). To Deliberate or Not to Deliberate: Non-Participation of Randomly Selected Citizens in Two Mini-Publics. ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, Warsaw. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/194597