Urban representation through deliberation: A theory and test of deliberative democracy at the local level

Collins, Jonathan

doi:10.1080/07352166.2018.1427507

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“…So, theoretically, I would expect even stronger effects to emerge should study participants receive multiple doses of the treatment, to where the deliberation treatment, in particular, can potentially become normalized. Existing research suggests that establishing deliberative governing norms can strengthen local representation (Collins 2018;.…”

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Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings

Collins

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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Would public meetings incite more civic engagement if they were structured in ways that are simply more engaging? I addressed this question by conducting an original survey with an oversample of racial and ethnic minorities and individuals from low-income households. The survey featured a randomized experiment in which each study participant was shown a short clip of an actual school board meeting that was (1) a standard meeting with no public participation, (2) a meeting with public participation, or (3) a meeting with deliberation (public participation followed by a reasoned response from the school board). The experience of viewing the more participatory and deliberative school board meetings led to increased trust in local officials and a stronger willingness to attend school board meetings in the future. This study has significant implications for civic engagement, local politics, and public school governance.

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Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings

Collins

2021

Am Polit Sci Rev

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“…Equally important in evaluating the status of groups such as Muslim Americans and their prospects for political incorporation in the United States is understanding how legislators represent them both descriptively and substantively (Collins 2018; Hayes and Hibbing 2017; Ocampo 2018). Political underrepresentation of minority groups yields negative democratic consequences (Mansbridge 1999), such as political alienation (Pantoja and Segura 2003).…”

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Evaluating Muslim American Representation

Lajevardi

Spangler

2022

APSC

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“…Many accounts use experience to explain the public's positive views of local people, groups and institutions. Sub-national governments draw their support from the public's favorable evaluations of their performance (Rendleman and Rogowski 2024) and because they are more approachable than a large and distant federal government (Oliver 2000, Collins 2018). Politicians with strong community roots earn their plaudits by using their personal relationships to cultivate a "friends and neighbors" vote (Meredith 2013) and by exerting effort on behalf of local issues (Crosson and Kaslovsky ND).…”

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Can Americans' Trust in Local News Be Trusted? The Emergence, Sources and Implications of the Local News Trust Advantage

Peterson,

Darr,

Allamong

et al. 2024

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Despite eroding consensus about credible political news sources, much of the public still trusts local media. We assess the emergence, sources and implications of the trust advantage local news holds over national media. We argue the public now uses a news outlet's local orientation as a shortcut to assess its credibility. In survey experiments, we find unfamiliar news outlets are trusted more when they have a local cue in their name. In surveys where people evaluate digital sources covering their community, this heuristic leads the public to trust unreliable information providers that signal a local focus more than high-quality sources that do not. Our findings position local media as unique, broadly trusted communicators while also illustrating a logic behind recent efforts to disseminate biased political information by packaging it as local news. More broadly, we show the challenges that arise when the public applies once-reliable heuristics in changing political circumstances.

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Urban representation through deliberation: A theory and test of deliberative democracy at the local level

Cited by 9 publications

References 50 publications

Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings

Does the Meeting Style Matter? The Effects of Exposure to Participatory and Deliberative School Board Meetings

Evaluating Muslim American Representation

Can Americans' Trust in Local News Be Trusted? The Emergence, Sources and Implications of the Local News Trust Advantage

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