Does Group Deliberation Mobilize? The Effect of Public Deliberation on Willingness to Participate in Politics.

ABSTRACT: Proponents of public deliberation suggest that engaging in deliberation increases deliberators' subsequent participation in other forms of politics. We evaluate this "deliberative participation hypothesis" using data drawn from a deliberative field experiment in which members of medically underserved communities in Michigan deliberated in small groups about the design of that state's Medicaid program. Participants were randomly assigned to deliberate about the program in a group or to think about the decision individually, and then completed a post-survey that included measures of willingness to engage in a variety of political acts. We measured willingness to engage in common forms of political participation, as well as willingness to participate in particularistic resistance to adverse d

SUBMITTER: Myers CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7197766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature