Evaluating citizens’ assemblies: Criteria, methods and tools
(2023) De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies — ISBN: [9783110758269], p. 241-255, published
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- Citizens’ assemblies (CAs) have been heralded as a potential antidote to the alleged crisis of democratic legitimacy and effectiveness. However, CAs are used in a variety of designs, on a variety of topics, and in a variety of political and institutional contexts. As the experience with CAs deepens and competing designs proliferate, demands for concrete evaluation standards and tools have risen. This chapter aims to offer a comprehensive account of central evaluation criteria for CAs, both in the input, throughput, and output phases, and it gives an overview of potential methods for evaluating CAs. Moreover, the chapter also outlines a new operational evaluation tool, the Citizen Assembly Evaluation Survey (CAES), which taps into the different dimensions.
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Caluwaerts, D., & Reuchamps, M. (2023). Evaluating citizens’ assemblies: Criteria, methods and tools. In Min Reuchamps, Julien Vrydagh & Yanina Welp (eds) (ed.), De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens’ Assemblies (p. p. 241-255). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110758269-020