Ankone, Bas (2023) A fair chance to participate: the effects of perceived decision-making characteristics of a referendum and differently diverse citizens assemblies on procedural fairness and climate policy acceptability. Research Master thesis, Research Master.
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Abstract
An increasingly popular practice suggested to increase climate policy acceptance concerns public participation in the policymaking process (Dryzeck & Niemeyer, 2019; VNG, 2021). This popularity largely originates from political theoretical arguments (Smith, 2009), which have yet to be firmly empirically corroborated (Perlaviciute, 2022). 2022). More importantly, however, the research that is being done mostly approaches public participation too generically, as constituting a single thing, contrasting it to non participatory settings (Hügel & Davies, 2020). Rarely do studies attend to the wide variety of ways in which public participation can take place Participedia.net), let alone how and why such different procedures may lead to differences in relevant outcomes. The present study therefore studied (differences in) public perceptions of decision-making procedural characteristics (control, individual representation, inclusivity, collective representation, interest-related contemplative quality, value-related contemplative quality, and creativity) of three distinct public participation procedures: a referendum, a demographic diverse citizens assembly, and a perspective diverse citizens assembly. assembly. Additionally, we investigated the relevance of these predictors for perceived procedural fairness and subsequent policy acceptability, and explored whether this relevance differs across procedures. We found that levels of relevant perceptions widely differed across different types of procedures, and that perceived procedural fairness and policy acceptance depend on different predictors for different procedures. This has important consequences not only for political theory advocating certain types of public participation, but also for practice and empirical research, which should be better differentiating between different forms of participation in the future.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Research Master) |
|---|---|
| Supervisor name: | Perlaviciute, G. |
| Degree programme: | Research Master |
| Differentiation route: | Other [Research Master] |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2023 14:08 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Sep 2023 14:08 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2892 |
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