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Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship

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posted on 2024-10-21, 13:19 authored by Anthony KevinsAnthony Kevins, Joshua Robison
Governments around the world are experimenting with deliberative mini-publics as a means of integrating public input into policymaking processes, including as a method for directly creating policy. This raises the important question of when ordinary people will judge the outputs of mini-publics to be legitimate and support their use. We investigate how public support for mini-publics is shaped by: (1) whether the mini-public is held in response to calls from politicians or from the general public; (2) which political party sets up the mini-public; and (3) whether there is partisan conflict surrounding the mini-public’s creation. To do so, we use two pre-registered survey experiments fielded in the United Kingdom that focus on climate assemblies, a prominent form of deliberative mini-public. Results are three-fold. First, we find some evidence that assemblies are more positively evaluated when they stem from the demands of local residents rather than partisan actors, but this effect is relatively modest and does not emerge consistently across our analyses. Similar findings are noted with regard to partisanship. Partisan conflict, by contrast, has a more robust effect – leading respondents to adopt more ideologically stereotypical views of the assembly, with left-wing (right-wing) respondents being more supportive of Labour-sponsored (Conservative-sponsored) assemblies.

History

School

  • Social Sciences and Humanities

Department

  • International Relations, Politics and History

Published in

European Journal of Political Research

Publisher

Wiley

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Acceptance date

2024-10-06

Notes

Data and replication materials will be published on the Open Science Framework (OSF) webpage for this project.

ISSN

0304-4130

eISSN

1475-6765

Language

  • en

Depositor

Dr Anthony Kevins. Deposit date: 21 October 2024

Ethics review number

2022-7045-10358/2023-13739-13181

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