Do Hostile Media Perceptions Constrain Minipublics? A Study of How Oregon Voters Perceive Citizens' Statements

The deliberative quality of a minipublic often depends on its ability to inform the opinions of a larger public. The Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) aims to do so by producing a Citizens’ Statement, which we conceptualize as a deliberative form of mass media. Like any mass media, this Statement ca...

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Main Authors: John Gastil, Michael Broghammer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Westminster Press 2021-12-01
Series:Journal of Deliberative Democracy
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Online Access:https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/982/