Stakeholder and Citizen Roles in Public Deliberation

Kahane, David; Loptson, Kristjana; Herriman, Jade; Hardy, Max

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“…Yet it might be the identification of the other topics and their connection to the foci of their respective involvement projects that contributes to the call for additional citizen involvement in foresight. The organisers of deliberative citizen involvement processes typically attempt to make sure that they give rise to neutral and unbiased results [16] and that strategic selections are made only after an analysis of the contributions of the involvement has been conducted in accordance with the conventions of backcasting [18][19][20]. The realisation of this target is clearly challenged by our results.…”

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confidence: 83%

“…Eliciting deliberated citizen-induced strategic messages may in some settings be of greater importance than simply surveying citizen sentiments or values. Such acknowledgement would also reflect the ongoing professionalisation of citizen involvement procedures [16] and mark an important step from naivety towards strategic citizen foresight. After all, why would citizens be any different than experts in their capacity to contribute to different kinds of foresight on each separate involvement occasion?…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Addressing citizens as contributing foresight actors provides a largely untapped resource for foresight studies. Accordingly, developing and institutionalising procedures for citizen involvement in foresight [14,15] would help scholars to find their way amongst the myriad of methodologies and aims [16,17]. Apart from helping to overcome problems accrued from a democratic deficit in foresight due to heavy reliance on experts, citizen involvement may also reveal knowledge that experts do not identify as relevant or value highly [1].…”

Section: Citizen Involvement For Sustainable Futuresmentioning

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Citizen visions for European futures—methodological considerations and implications

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Matschoss

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In recent years, citizen involvement has been increasingly recognised as a source of complementary insights to expert-based foresight. This article analyses citizen visions on desirable and sustainable futures gathered in three recent European involvement projects and reviews how the methodology of topic modelling can be applied to identify commonalities in the visions and how the identified topics are distributed across the citizen involvement projects. A common topic addressing a European citizen desire for wide-ranging societal development with an emphasis on education was identified in the modelling. In addition, three specific topics that correspond to the foci of each involvement project were evident: 'local production', 'cultural variety' and 'concerned collectives'. Hence, the results indicate that there are further opportunities for further citizen involvement activities and that specifically focused open-ended envisioning events can contribute to unique sets of citizen-induced topics for the future. These results are particularly useful for the institutionalisation of citizen involvement in foresight studies.

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Citizen visions for European futures—methodological considerations and implications

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Matschoss

2018

Eur J Futures Res

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“…Participants were recruited for diversity at 2 aspects, to ensure as much as possible the representation of diverse views held by Dutch citizens. 34 The first aspect of diversity relates to participants' mentality groups (ie, attitudes to life) that represent shared aspirations regarding work, leisure and politics, and show similar lifestyle and consumption patterns. The segmentation into 8 mentality groups is based on value orientation (eg, traditional, modern, postmodern) and status seeking (ie, low, middle, high).…”

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The Dutch Citizen Forum on Public Reimbursement of Healthcare: A Qualitative Analysis of Opinion Change

Jansen¹,

Baltussen²,

Bijlmakers³

et al. 2020

Int J Health Policy Manag

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Background: A deliberative Citizen Forum ‘Choices in healthcare’ was held in the Netherlands to obtain insight into the criteria informed citizens would propose for the public reimbursement of healthcare. During 3 weekends, 24 citizens participated in evidence-informed deliberation on the basis of 8 case studies. The aim of this study was to assess how the opinions of 8 participants in the deliberative Citizens Forum changed and if so, why participants themselves believe their opinions have changed, whether participation influenced their perceived reasonableness of other participants in the forum and whether it influenced their opinions about involvement of citizens in decision-making. Methods: Semi-structured interviews were held with 8 participants before and after their participation in the Citizen Forum. Using the method of reconstructing interpretive frames opinions about the public reimbursement of healthcare were reconstructed. Results: Participants’ opinions changed over time; they became more aware of the complexity of decision-making and came to accept that there are limits to the available resources and accept cost as a criterion for reimbursement decisionmaking. Participants report that exchanging arguments and personal experiences with other participants made them change their initial opinions. Participants ascribed increases in the perceived reasonableness of other participants’ opinions to feelings of group-bonding and becoming more familiar with each other’s personal circumstances. Participants further believe that citizens represent an additional opinion to that of other stakeholders and believe their opinions should be considered in relation to those of other stakeholders, given they are provided with opportunities for critical discussion. Conclusion: Organized deliberation should allow for the exchange of arguments and the sharing of personal experiences which is linked to learning. On the one hand this is reflected in the uptake of new arguments and on the other hand in the revision, specification or expansion of personal argumentation. Providing opportunities for critical deliberation is key to prevent citizens from adhering to initial emotional reactions that remain unchallenged and which may no longer be supported after deliberation.

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“…Interesting combinations might also result between the combination of discourse analysis and mini-publics. Mini-publics should always try to address a broad range of perspectives and stakeholder selection or expert engagement can result in skewed framing (Kahane, et al, 2013). An interesting approach would be to combine insights form the theory of discursive representation with action research on mini-publics.…”

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Exploring discursive representation: Flemish agriculture as a case

Crivits¹

2018

Bestuurskunde

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What the above illustrates is the need for some form of systematic understanding of ideas, since three seemingly similar concepts in fact conceal entirely different ideational backgrounds and identical concepts are adopted and employed strategically by groups that share radical differing worlds of meaning. Indeed, without such a systematic understanding it would seem to be unclear why and in what proportion agriculture should be productivist, multifunctional, 'objects' of representation such as territorial constituencies (e.g. 'I represent the interests of the Flemish citizens ') or social groups ('I represent the retailers'), discourses become the basis for representation ('I represent the multifunctionality discourse'). The framework of discursive representation and its underlying concepts and assumptions will serve as a guideline for our study of ongoing political processes in the Flemish agro-food system. Chapter 2 will be entirely devoted to the elaboration of the basic assumptions of discursive representation, its relation with deliberative democracy, and the way in which Chapter 1 6 1.2. DISCOURSES, INSTITUTIONS & POLITICS Recently, scholars began to take seriously the role of discourses in institutional change. In political theory, discourse was often considered to have secondary value to explain what happens within institutions. For instance, in rational choice theory, ideas are reduced to 'cheap talk' (Austen-Smith, 1992) used by actors to persuade others, having the main goal to influence an individual's preference on a particular policy issue (or voting option). It's 'cheap' because 'everyone can talk', which also makes it relatively low in importance. Ideas are one of the many strategic devices, instruments for the maximization of material interests, which ultimately guide political behavior and institutions (Schmidt, 2010). Furthermore, political institutions were often portrayed as rather fixed entities in which either rational calculation of material interests and aggregation of preferences (=rational choice institutionalism), regularized patterns and pathdependent trajectories (=historical institutionalism) as well as the appropriation of cultural norms (=sociological institutionalism) serve to understand how 'stability' within institutions is reproduced (Schmidt, 2010). Institutional change is often depicted as the result of an external influence, such as e.g. the emergence of an economic or ecological crisis leading to political instability, in turn necessitating the re-configuration of a governmental structure (Schmidt, 2010; Hajer, 2009). This PhD is anchored within an emerging research tradition that aims to address the dynamic relationship between discourses and institutional arrangements. How does the articulation of discourses lead to institutional continuity and change? If political actors advocate a new form of democratic participation to become part of the political system, for instance, a city council introducing participatory budgeting or a politician evoking the need to have a proce...

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Stakeholder and Citizen Roles in Public Deliberation

Cited by 43 publications

References 26 publications

Citizen visions for European futures—methodological considerations and implications

Citizen visions for European futures—methodological considerations and implications

The Dutch Citizen Forum on Public Reimbursement of Healthcare: A Qualitative Analysis of Opinion Change

Exploring discursive representation: Flemish agriculture as a case

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