Political colors and deliberative wave
We highlight the new publication "Mini-publics and Party Ideology: Who Commissioned the Deliberative Wave in Europe?" by Rodrigo Ramis, Graham Smith, Ernesto Ganuza and Thamy Pogrebinschi to be published in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy. Three main lessons for the implementation of deliberative mini-publics in Europe (from 1979 to 2021 in 18 European countries):
- In terms of quantity, their implementation is balanced between right-wing and left-wing governments;
- there is an important influence of the context, i.e. the tradition in a country can greatly influence the adoption of mini-publics, regardless of the political color of its different governments (citizen juries in Germany for example);
- it is observed that left-wing governments tend to promote mini-publics with a higher deliberative quality than right-wing governments.