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Shielding deliberation 150 citizens at a time?
Competing narratives of citizens' assemblies as drivers for a better-informed EU citizenry
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Building ‘field’ theory, this paper argues that there is an ongoing discursive struggle among actors involved in the EU ‘deliberative wave’ to define under which leadership and specific methodologies and processes citizens’ assemblies (CAs) are institutionalised in the EU. Despite the lack of academic consensus, disinformation is an articulating element of the different competing narratives. The question guiding this research is: How do the EU ‘deliberative wave’ actors frame CAs as drivers of a better-informed citizenry? Through theory-building methods, semi-structured interviews, and drawing on how CAs are framed as tools against disinformation, four prevailing narratives are identified: anti-political deliberation, self-legitimising deliberation, scientific deliberation, and radical deliberation. This paper argues that CAs do not necessarily foster a better-informed citizenry or a more inclusive democracy. Each narrative implicitly leads to a different normative conception of the public sphere and democracy. Depending on the type of actor and their objectives, they will tend towards the narrative that best allows them to position their interests in the ‘field’.
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- Corporate author(s): European University Institute
- Personal author(s): Palomo Hernández, Nicolás
- Themes: Social sciences research
- Subject: access to information , citizen-authority relations , disinformation , EU policy , participatory democracy , thesis
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| ISSN | ISBN | DOI 10.2870/0121878 | Catalogue number QM-01-24-050-EN-N |
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