Make Your Brussels Mobility citizen panel: Presentation of data collected from the participants before and after the panel
(2021) , 13 p. pages
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Vrydagh, Julien 
- Abstract
- In June 2017, the Parliament of the Brussels Capital Region decided to organize a citizen panel about mobility issues in and around Brussels. This “Make Your Brussels Mobility” citizen panel was made of 40 randomly selected citizens who met four times in the Brussels Parliament, on 21 and 28 October (only in the morning) and on 18 and 19 November (the whole day). At the end of its four meetings, the panel submitted to the Parliament a “citizen resolution”, containing a list of demands and recommendations, that was handed over to a special parliamentary commission in December 2017, which adopted a “parliamentary resolution” supporting the citizen resolution and asking the regional parliament to consider it. The participants in the panel were invited by the scientific committee set by the Parliament to fill in a short survey before and after the citizen panel. Participants’ perspectives are important sources of information to evaluate citizen panels. This short report presents the data that was collected in two surveys: before the citizen panel took place, and one afterwards. Both surveys asked similar questions, but the pre-survey aimed at shedding light on the expectations of the participants, while the post-survey investigated how the participants assess the citizen panel. In the beginning of each survey, a small explanation was given about the purpose of the survey. In both surveys, the participants are asked to give their opinion on certain statements, using a scale from 0 (totally disagree) to 10 (totally agree). The statements concern aspects of the quality of participation and of deliberation, the impact of the citizen panel, the trust the participants have towards political institutions, the different visions of democracy and also opinions regarding mobility in Brussels. Below the results of the surveys are presented in three categories: questions concerning the citizen panel, politics and citizen participation, as well as mobility in Brussels. For each question, we give the actual number of respondents (i.e. the frequency and not the percentage) for each value, before (PRE) and after (POST) the citizen panel. It should be noted that the respondents – and their number – are not necessarily the same in the two surveys and hence one should be careful in comparing both.
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Cluytens, R., Caluwaerts, D., Damay, L., Devillers, S., Pilet, J.-B., Reuchamps, M., & Vrydagh, J. (2021). Make Your Brussels Mobility citizen panel: Presentation of data collected from the participants before and after the panel. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/103357