Deliberative minipublics are popular tools to address the current crisis in democracy.
However, it remains ambiguous to what degree these small-scale forums matter for mass …

Experiments are essential to the practice of democratic deliberation, which itself is an
experimental remedy to the problem of self-governance. This field, however, is constrained …

This paper tests the possibility of embedding the benefits of minipublic deliberation within a
wider voting public. We test whether a statement such as those derived from a Citizens' …

Deliberative processes can alter participants' attitudes and behavior, but deliberative
minipublics connected to macro-level discourse may also influence the attitudes of non …

Scholars and practitioners discuss how to increase the policy impact of climate assemblies
(CAs) noting that their proposals tend to be more ambitious than government policy. CAs …

Participatory innovations (PIs) have been introduced as one possible cure to democratic
malaises. Empirical research on these mechanisms for citizen participation has, however …

A large body of work shows that reasoning motivated by partisan cues and prior attitudes
leads to unreflective decisions and disparities in empirical beliefs across groups …

Deliberative theorists argue that democracies face an increasing legitimacy crisis for lack of
effective representation and robust decision-making processes. To address this problem …

We argue that integrating citizen deliberation structures into the pre-referendum phase can
deliver systematic improvements in democratic outcomes such as alignment between values …

IMPACT Since the 1980s, deliberative democracy has dominated thinking around
democratic innovation as an approach to address the ongoing legitimacy crisis of public …