From the Secret Ballot to the Public Vote: Examining Voters’ Experience of Political Discussion in Vote-by-Mail Elections

Reedy, Justin; Gastil, John; Moy, Patricia

doi:10.1080/10584609.2014.969462

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“…The values and empirical belief shifts found in this study, however, suggest that voters did more than glance at the CIR Statement and follow its cue. Readers might have discussed the initiative and CIR findings with fellow voters (Reedy, Gastil, & Moy, 2016), or perhaps engaged in the kind of reading and reflection, or "deliberation within," that can be as potent as discussion itself (Goodin, 2003). Interpreted that way, the CIR panel's one-page analysis provided an opportunity for the electorate to stop and think about key facts and pro/con arguments before arriving at an independent judgment.…”

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confidence: 99%

Assessing the Electoral Impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

Gastil

Knobloch

Reedy

et al. 2017

American Politics Research

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The Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) distinguishes itself by linking a small deliberative body to the larger electoral process. Since 2010, CIR citizen panels have been a legislatively authorized part of Oregon general elections to promote a more informed electorate. The CIR gathers a representative cross-section of two dozen voters for 5 days of deliberation on a single ballot measure. The process culminates in the citizen panelists writing a Citizens’ Statement that the secretary of state inserts into the official Voters’ Pamphlet sent to each registered voter. This study analyzes the effect of one such Citizens’ Statement from the 2010 general election. In Study 1, an online survey experiment found that reading this Statement influenced Oregon voters’ values trade-offs, issue knowledge, and vote intentions. In Study 2, regression analysis of a cross-sectional phone survey found a parallel association between the Statement’s use and voting choices but yielded some mixed findings.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Electoral Impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

Gastil

Knobloch

Reedy

et al. 2017

American Politics Research

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“…Other scholars have investigated meso-level and micro-level factors, such as the roles of political practices, organizations, groups, and individuals doing the work of deliberation (Nabatchi et al, 2013;Carcasson and Sprain, 2016), which is the approach we have taken in this paper. This research has examined deliberation in both formal and informal settings-that is, how deliberation can be facilitated through formalized structures (often written) and practices (Carson et al, 2013;Fagotto and Fung, 2006;Gastil and Levine, 2005), as well as the deliberative nature of discussion and dialog practices that occur in less formalized and naturally occurring settings (Eveland et al, 2011;Jacobs et al, 2009;Marques and Maia, 2010;Reedy et al, 2016;Wojcieszak and Mutz, 2009).…”

Section: Deliberative Theory and Deliberation Processesmentioning

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Deliberative democracy and historical perspectives on American Indian/Alaska native political decision-making practices

Reedy

Orr

Spicer

et al. 2020

Humanit Soc Sci Commun

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Public deliberation has risen to the forefront of governance as a technique for increasing participation in policy making. Scholars and practitioners have also noted the potential for deliberation to give greater influence to historically marginalized populations, such as Indigenous peoples. However, there has been less attention paid to the potential fit between the ideals of deliberation and the governance and decision making practices of American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) peoples. In this paper, we begin to address this gap by analyzing accounts of AI/AN governance from the perspective of deliberation, and note areas of overlap, synergy, and conflict. We conduct a close reading of key historical and ethnographic accounts of four historical AI/AN contexts-the Iroquois Confederation under the Great Law of Peace, 19th century accounts of the Ojibwa village, the Santa Clara Pueblo government in pre-19th century, and Yup'ik village life in the early 20th century-and a more contemporary case in the form of the Santa Clara Pueblo's Constitution from the Indian Reorganization Act period. We then apply two sets of key criteria for deliberative democracy-from the scholars Robert Dahl and John Gastil-to these accounts and note the ways in which each system is or is not congruent with these frameworks of deliberation. We find variations between these historical tribal contexts in our analysis. Social components of deliberation, such as respectful discussion and equal opportunities to participate, were partially or fully present in many accounts of governance practices, but it was less clear whether the analytic components, such as discussion of a range of solutions, were included in some forms of tribal governance. We then explore the potential implications of our findings for public deliberation within and in AI/AN tribes. We note that deliberative scholars and practitioners should be wary of overgeneralizing about AI/AN tribes.

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“…On the other hand, for this same author, the political is the non-institutional order or agreement that governs diversity itself, which is marked in terms of antagonism and hostility as it emerges from the peculiarities from which every human relationship is gestated. Political and political are thus expensive of the same currency, interdependent: politics helps to regulate the political institutionally, and the political in turn nourishes politics (Reedy, Gastil and Moy, 2015;Mierick and Bessarabova, 2015). This, as you can see, makes the political, and even also of politics, a social relationship in the public sphere (Arendt, 1997), that is, a relationship between individuals, only that in politics this relationship occurs between individuals with different political hierarchy (those who govern and those who are governed), while in politics this relationship takes place from more horizontal instances that point, in essence, to the individual-individual relationship.…”

Section: Emerging Citizen Political Participation: Theoretical Concepmentioning

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Communication, Socialization and Citizenship: Theoretical-Conceptual Bases to Understand the Expression of Contemporary Citizen Politics

Romeu¹,

Alvarez²

2019

SMC

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This text reflects theoretically and conceptually on the contemporary political expression of citizenship - which we have also named as emergent, given its recent appearance and its novel forms and contents - from three perspectives of analysis: that of science and political philosophy, from the approach of inclusive citizenship around the binomial citizenship-rights; that of relational sociology that makes it possible to think of citizen's political action practices as practices of individual-individual relationship; and communication as an expression, from which political expression is conceptualized as a communicative phenomenon and its levels of analysis are delineated. The result implies recognizing these practices as a possible revitalization/re-foundation of democracy, under the guarantor of human rights.

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From the Secret Ballot to the Public Vote: Examining Voters’ Experience of Political Discussion in Vote-by-Mail Elections

Cited by 7 publications

References 44 publications

Assessing the Electoral Impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

Assessing the Electoral Impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

Deliberative democracy and historical perspectives on American Indian/Alaska native political decision-making practices

Communication, Socialization and Citizenship: Theoretical-Conceptual Bases to Understand the Expression of Contemporary Citizen Politics

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