The Perception of the Legitimacy of Citizens' Assemblies in Deeply Divided Places? Evidence of Public and Elite Opinion from Consociational Northern Ireland
The 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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在分歧严重的地方如何看待公民集会的合法性？
DOI：
10.1017/gov.2021.4
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发表时间：
2021
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Garry J
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作者：
Garry J
有多少公众和精英支持使用公民大会--随机选择的公民聚集在一起考虑一个政策问题--来解决严重分裂地区与联合政治机构之间导致僵局的重大分歧？我们专注于北方爱尔兰，并使用来自横断面态度调查，基于调查的实验和精英访谈的证据。我们发现，一般公众支持公民大会的决策，即使所达成的决定是他们个人不同意的。然而，在意识形态观点强烈的人中，支持率较低。我们还发现，当选的政治家反对将决策权下放给“不民主”的公民大会，但更支持决策权。这些调查结果突出表明，在征得各方同意的情况下，有可能对冲突后联合会进行修改，以纳入提出建议但不具有约束力的政策的公民大会。
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.