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In recent decades and there has been an increased scholarly interest in what citizens prefer when it comes to processes for political decision-making (see Bengtsson & Mattila 2009; Coffe & Michels 2014; Esaiasson et al. 2012; Hibbing & Theiss-Morse 2001; Webb 2013; Wojcieszak 2014). The increased interest for the way in which political decisions are taken can at least partly be seen as a response to challenges facing many advanced representative democracies of today, such as decreasing levels of turnout in elections, party membership and political trust (Stoker 2006; Hay 2007) and the fact that scholars and policy makers often consider widened possibilities for citizen participation as a way to bring people back in to politics (Scarrow 2001, 2003; Smith 2009; Michels & de Graaf 2010; Grönlund et al. 2010). The current state of research has demonstrated that people have different conceptions of how much citizen involvement is warranted in the ideal democratic process. Many questions do however remain to be explored relating for example to the individual underpinnings, contextual and issue specific variations, and to the political consequences of process preferences. This panel invites papers that deepen the understanding of people’s democracy preferences from different perspectives. We are interested in papers that combine theoretical approaches with empirical data. Comparative and experimental papers are especially welcome.
| Title | Details |
|---|---|
| Can Direct Democracy Save Democracy? A Panel Study on the Effect of Participation in A Referendum on Decision-Making Process Preferences and Decision Acceptance | View Paper Details |
| Explaining mixed preferences for political decision-making: Evidence from Germany | View Paper Details |
| Tool or trap? Cognition or discourse? What is a procedural preference? | View Paper Details |
| The ideological foundation of citizens’ preferences for political decision-making processes | View Paper Details |
| How Should Political Decisions be Made? A cross-national investigation of citizens’ perceptions of alternative decision-making processes | View Paper Details |