Mini publics and deliberative systems

5 important questions on Mini publics and deliberative systems

What is a mini public?

- based on a lottery
- participation days for information and discussion
- on many different levels

Why do local governments introduce participatory democracies according to the Kübler text?

- turnout
- pragmatic
- act-contingent motivations
- outcome contingent motivations
- hype

What can be said for the variables that Kübler et al use for testing their hypotheses?

- they just picked the easiest variables
- measured might not everything that they wanted the variables to measure -> social inequality is only measured by income inequality
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To what extent is the DIY-model from Hendriks a democratic model?

It is very much about the implementation and not so much on the participation and deliberation part

What are problems with deliberation?

- other citizens have not been following the deliberation
- no formal power = only advisory
- political parties did not like the outcome
- commercial media
- no campaign/communication budgets

-> the pitfall is to focus too much on the outcome and not so much on participation

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