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Evaluate processes
Ability to measure desired outcomes to compare methods, processes and systems.
How this is performed now...
- Process organizers Process organizers determine criteria for successful processes and develop indicators for when criteria are met.
- Citizens' assembly organizers Citizens' assembly organizers primarily rely on pre- and post-process surveys for evaluation. Comparisons are typically an auditing exercise against established standards that aren't derived from empirical data.
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Research
Perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places
This paper seeks to measure how much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly to tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions. It focuses on Northern Ireland and uses evidence from a cross-sectional ...
Research
It's Not Just the Taking Part that Counts: 'Like Me' Perceptions Connect the Wider Public to Minipublics
Many deliberative democrats herald the potential of minipublics to help improve the quality of democratic decision-making. Yet these democratic innovations present a paradox: how can the use of minipublics be perceived as legitimate by the maxi-public when most citizens cannot participate? This a...
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