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When Citizens Decide

2011· book· en· W2484215869 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueOxford University Press eBooks · 2011
Typebook
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicElectoral Systems and Political Participation
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsDeliberationPoliticsPolitical scienceStatus quoDemocracyDeliberative democracyPublic relationsPublic administrationCitizenshipPolitical efficacyCivic engagementActive citizenshipInstitutionLaw

Abstract

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Three unprecedented large-scale democratic experiments have recently taken place. Citizen assemblies on electoral reform were conducted in British Columbia, the Netherlands, and Ontario. Groups of randomly selected citizens were asked to design the next electoral system. In each case, the participants spent almost an entire year learning about electoral systems, consulting the public, deliberating, debating, and ultimately deciding what specific institution should be adopted. In this book, these unique cases are used to examine claims about citizens’ capacity for democratic deliberation and active engagement in policymaking. Empirical insight is offered to numerous debates: Are ordinary citizens able to decide about a complex issue? Are their decisions reasonable? Who takes part in such proceedings? Are they dominated by people dissatisfied by the status quo? Do some citizens play a more prominent role than others? Are decisions driven by the most vocal or most informed members? Did the participants decide by themselves? Were they influenced by staff, political parties, interest groups, or the public hearings? Does participation in a deliberative process foster citizenship? Did participants become more trusting, tolerant, open-minded, civic-minded, interested in politics, and active in politics? How do the other political actors react? Can the electorate accept policy proposals made by a group of ordinary citizens? The lessons drawn from this research are relevant for those interested in political participation, public opinion, deliberation, public policy, and democracy.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.924
Threshold uncertainty score0.994

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.065
GPT teacher head0.272
Teacher spread0.206 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it