Deliberative panels as a source of public knowledge: A large-sample test of the Citizens' Initiative Review.

ABSTRACT: Evolving US media and political systems, coupled with escalating misinformation campaigns, have left the public divided over objective facts featured in policy debates. The public also has lost much of its confidence in the institutions designed to adjudicate those epistemic debates. To counter this threat, civic entrepreneurs have devised institutional reforms to revitalize democratic policymaking. One promising intervention is the Citizens' Initiative Review (CIR), which has been adopted into law in Oregon and tested in several other states, as well as Switzerland and Finland. Each CIR gathers a demographically stratified random sample of registered voters to form a deliberative panel, which hears from pro and con advocates and neutral experts while assessing the merits of a ballot measu

SUBMITTER: Gastil J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10374050 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature