The main dimensions of process preferences. A survey among Europeans

There have been many debates about what where the core dimensions that organized the process preferences of citizens. Some have argued that citizens were first concerned about who should decide, be it elected politicians, citizens or independent experts. Other claims that citizens were more concerned about how politics should be made – more consensually or more based upon conflicts. Recently, Hibbing, Theis-Morse, Hibbing and Fortunato (2021) proposed a new comprehensive battery of 21 items that could capture the main dimensions of process preferences for citizens. There battery has been tested in the US only. In this paper, we propose to test the same battery across 9 European countries in order to capture what are the main dimensions of process preferences for Europeans.