Replication material for: Who supports deliberative mini-publics in a context of direct democracy? The role of trust and dissatisfaction.

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DOI of the publication

https://doi.org/10.1177/00208523251351804

Authors

Daniel Kübler (University of Zurich, Centre for Democracy Studies)
Robin Gut (University of Zurich, Centre for Democracy Studies)
Andri Heimann (University of Zurich, Centre for Democracy Studies)
Nenad Stojanović (University of Geneva, Department of Political Science and International Relations)
Céline Colombo (Canton of Zurich, Office for Participation)

Publication year

2025

Abstract

Existing research on public perceptions of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) focusses on contexts of representative democracy. We present the first study that explores citizen support for DMPs in a polity characterised by extensive direct democracy, where citizen participation is already substantive and frequent. Empirically, we draw on a population survey featuring a conjoint experiment with 3700 respondents conducted in early 2023 in Switzerland, after the holding of three DMPs on climate policy.

Keywords

deliberative mini-publics
democratic innovation
citizen perceptions
Switzerland

Geolocation

Switzerland, Canton of Zurich

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DOI of the replication material

https://doi.org/10.25597/7gba-6384

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Kübler, D., Gut, R., Heimann, A., Stojanović, N. (2025). Replication material for: Who supports deliberative mini-publics in a context of direct democracy? The role of trust and dissatisfaction. (Version 1.0) [Dataset]. FORS. https://doi.org/10.25597/7gba-6384

Description of the material

XLSX: Codebook in German (.xlsx)
RDA: reduced dataset (.Rda)
QMD: data cleanup code (.qmd)
QMD: data analysis code (.qmd)

Remarks

Our analysis draws on a population survey with roughly 3,700 respondents conducted early 2023 in the canton of Zurich, after the holding of the three DMPs just described. In collaboration with the statistics office of the canton of Zurich, a random sample of 12,120 inhabitants aged over 16 years was drawn from official residents’ registers. Among those, 3,030 were drawn from the whole canton, and 3,030 each from the three cities in which the DMPs had taken place. These individuals were sent a postal invitation to participate in a self-administered survey (online or by filling in and sending back a paper questionnaire). 3,706 individuals completed the survey (3,244 online and 462 on paper), which corresponds to a response rate of 30.6%.

Publisher

FORS - Swiss Centre of Expertise in the Social Sciences

Usage licence

CC BY-NC-ND – Attribution – NonCommercial – NoDerivatives 4.0 International

Publication

No. 18