Citizens' Assemblies, Media, and Civil Society

Session Submission Type: Created Panel

Session Description

Proponents of deliberative “minipublics” argue that these new democratic institutions can help fill the “democratic deficit” and counteract the forces that contribute to democratic backsliding. Yet, the impact of democratic innovations like minipublics will be limited unless they are able to influence other elements of the political system. The papers in this panel examine the relationship between minipublics and other actors in government, media, and civil society, as well as the ability of minipublics to take control of their own agenda.

Sub Unit

• Related Groups / Democratic Innovations

Individual Presentations

• From Sensation to Persuasion: Rethinking Media’s Role in Democratic Innovation - Euchan Jang, Ohio State University

• Democratic Innovations beyond the State - Thamy Pogrebinschi, WZB Berlin Social Science Center

• Citizen Autonomy and Its Limits in Deliberative Mini-Publics - Dimitri Courant, Harvard University

• Climate Change, Citizen Assemblies, and Constituent Power - Jason Maloy, University of Louisiana, Lafayette

Chair

• C. Daniel Myers University of Minnesota

Discussants

• Paolo Spada University of Southampton

• C. Daniel Myers University of Minnesota