The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland
How much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly – a random selection of citizens brought together to consider a policy issue – to tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions? We focus on Northern Ire...
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2021
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| author | Garry, J Pow, J Coakley, J Farrell, D O'Leary, B Tilley, J |
| author_facet | Garry, J Pow, J Coakley, J Farrell, D O'Leary, B Tilley, J |
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| description | How much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly – a random selection of citizens brought together to consider a policy issue – to tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions? We focus on Northern Ireland and use evidence from a cross-sectional attitude survey, a survey-based experiment and elite interviews. We find that the general public support decision-making by a citizens’ assembly, even when the decision reached is one they personally disagree with. However, support is lower among those with strong ideological views. We also find that elected politicians oppose delegating decision-making power to an ‘undemocratic’ citizens’ assembly, but are more supportive of recommendation-making power. These findings highlight the potential for post-conflict consociations to be amended, with the consent of the parties, to include citizens’ assemblies that make recommendations but not binding policy. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:63f077bc-7d30-46d1-8595-14ada1d7ff7a2022-10-03T11:23:15ZThe perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern IrelandJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:63f077bc-7d30-46d1-8595-14ada1d7ff7aEnglishSymplectic ElementsCambridge University Press2021Garry, JPow, JCoakley, JFarrell, DO'Leary, BTilley, JHow much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly – a random selection of citizens brought together to consider a policy issue – to tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions? We focus on Northern Ireland and use evidence from a cross-sectional attitude survey, a survey-based experiment and elite interviews. We find that the general public support decision-making by a citizens’ assembly, even when the decision reached is one they personally disagree with. However, support is lower among those with strong ideological views. We also find that elected politicians oppose delegating decision-making power to an ‘undemocratic’ citizens’ assembly, but are more supportive of recommendation-making power. These findings highlight the potential for post-conflict consociations to be amended, with the consent of the parties, to include citizens’ assemblies that make recommendations but not binding policy. |
| spellingShingle | Garry, J Pow, J Coakley, J Farrell, D O'Leary, B Tilley, J The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title | The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title_full | The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title_fullStr | The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title_full_unstemmed | The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title_short | The perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places? Evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational Northern Ireland |
| title_sort | perception of the legitimacy of citizens assemblies in deeply divided places evidence of public and elite opinion from consociational northern ireland |
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