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Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it

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What makes politically dissatisfied citizens enthusiastic about deliberation? And what makes them hate it instead? Based on a picture task embedded in a series of focus groups conducted in Belgium, we argue that differences in sense-making help to explain why dissatisfied citizens (do not) support deliberation. We focus on two groups of dissatisfied citizens: non-partisan activists and politically disadvantaged citizens. For both groups, we find that when they thought of deliberation as lowkey, informal discussion, they linked it to respectful communication and beneficial outcomes; when they thought of it as formalized, structured discussion, their appraisals became much more negative. For researchers of deliberation, our results make clear that we should be careful in asking citizens what they think about 'deliberation' without inquiring into the way they interpret it. For deliberation practitioners, our findings underline the relevance of integrating informal interactions into the design of deliberative institutions.
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halshs-03891083, version 1 (09-12-2022)

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Ramon van der Does, Guillaume Petit. Picturing deliberation: How dissatisfied citizens make sense of it. International Political Science Review, 2022, pp.019251212211390. ⟨10.1177/01925121221139056⟩. ⟨halshs-03891083⟩
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