Europolis and the European public sphere: Empirical explorations of a counterfactual ideal

Fishkin, James S.; Luskin, Robert C.; Siu, Alice

doi:10.1177/1465116514531507

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“…The language barrier was overcome via simultaneous translation and did not pose an obstacle to deliberation. On the contrary, ‘the event evaluations [by participants] offer strong indications of successful communication and mutual respect' (Fishkin et al ., , p. 336). A similar experiment – called a European Citizens' panel and convened by the European Commission – was held in May 2018.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Fishkin et al . (), who in 2009 conducted an exploratory experiment called Europolis, argue that it could, and that a citizens' assembly at the European level is a ‘viable democratic tool' (Fishkin et al ., , p. 348). Moreover – and in contrast to Canada, where deliberations were held in English only – in Europolis the group of 348 citizens from the 27 EU member states used their native languages to discuss two timely political topics (immigration and climate change).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Political Parties in Deeply Multilingual Polities: Institutional Conditions and Lessons for the EU

Stojanović

Bonotti

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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The EU has long been suffering a legitimacy crisis. In this article we argue that multilingual Europarties, that is, European political parties operating in all the various languages spoken by their members via interpreting and translation, rather than resorting to a lingua franca, could contribute to providing an effective democratic linkage between EU citizens and EU institutions. Moreover, by drawing inspiration from an analysis of Belgium, Canada and Switzerland, we argue that centripetal institutions such as an EU-wide electoral district, presidentialism, and direct democracy could provide favourable institutional conditions for the development of such multilingual Europarties.

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confidence: 97%

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Political Parties in Deeply Multilingual Polities: Institutional Conditions and Lessons for the EU

Stojanović

Bonotti

2019

J of Common Market Studies

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“…In this spirit, recent studies have explored the possibility of facilitating political debates within a population as diverse as 'the Europeans' by experimenting with deliberative polls (see Fishkin et al, 2014;Isernia and Fishkin, 2014; and other articles in the special issue of this journal devoted to the EuroPolis experiment). The work presented here focuses on the election of Members of European Parliament (MEPs).…”

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The EuroVotePlus experiment

Laslier

Blais

Bol

et al. 2015

European Union Politics

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This paper reports on an online experiment that took place in several European countries during the three weeks before the 2014 elections for the European Parliament. We created a website where visitors could obtain information about the electoral rules used in different European Member States for this election. Participants were then invited to cast (simulated) ballots for the election according to three voting rules: closed list proportional representation, open list proportional representation with preferential voting, and open list proportional representation with cumulative voting and panachage. Participants were also invited to think about, and experiment with, the idea

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“…), the other on immigration and climate change (Fishkin et al. )—in which the UK was included in the deliberations. While these DP's demonstrate that through appropriate sampling methods the processes can be inclusive, increase informed preferences amongst participants, and lead to preference change on a range of policy areas and at a range of levels of governance in the UK, their influence on policy outcomes has been limited.…”

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Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK

Davidson¹

2013

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Research Highlights and Abstract This article: Provides an overview of the development of deliberative and participatory democracy in the UK. Critically analyses the success of consecutive UK national governments in fostering deliberative and participatory processes. Surveys the development of deliberative and participatory processes in the UK at sub‐national and local level. Provides a starting point for comparative politics on deliberative and participatory democracy between the UK and other polities. This article responds to Michael Saward's call for a more context‐specific approach to the study of democracy by exploring developments in, obstacles to, and prospects for, a more deliberative and participatory model of democracy in the UK. A review is undertaken first of the New Labour and coalition governments' attempts at constitutional reform, in order to assess the implications these efforts have had, and continue to have, for the institutionalisation of such a model of democracy. Despite proclamations of lofty ambition successive UK governments have wrapped themselves in the straightjacketing logic of the Westminster model of parliamentary government. As a consequence their actual proposals lack ambition and are often incoherent. The story told in this respect is therefore one of largely unrealised rhetoric. The ‘largely’ qualifier is included, however, in recognition of the space created by Labour's constitutional reforms for participation at the peripheries of governance. The second section of the article focuses on these spaces by, first, commenting briefly on whether the participatory aspirations of the architects of Scottish devolution have been realised before, second, examining the use of specific deliberative mechanisms—such as citizens' juries, deliberative polls and participatory budgeting—at varying locations within the political system and in public agencies and services. Evidence of democratic innovation is presented; however, any optimism on this front must be tempered, as the power‐sharing potential of such mechanisms, and their capacity to move us towards a more comprehensive and joined‐up deliberative system in the UK, is hampered by the lack of a facilitating institutional landscape. Finally, an overview is provided of the three remaining articles that make up this special section on deliberative and participatory democracy in the UK.

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Europolis and the European public sphere: Empirical explorations of a counterfactual ideal

Cited by 33 publications

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Political Parties in Deeply Multilingual Polities: Institutional Conditions and Lessons for the EU

Political Parties in Deeply Multilingual Polities: Institutional Conditions and Lessons for the EU

The EuroVotePlus experiment

Deliberative and Participatory Democracy in the UK

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