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Communication and the Public | 2016

Does the public want mini-publics? Voter responses to the Citizens’ Initiative Review

John Gastil; Elizabeth Rosenzweig; Katherine R. Knobloch; David L. Brinker

Deliberative democratic theory has proposed the use of mini-publics to discern a more reflective public opinion, which can then be conveyed to policymakers or back to the wider public. In 2009, the legislature in the State of Oregon (USA) created one such process in the Citizens’ Initiative Review to help the public make informed choices on statewide ballot measures. This study investigated how the public conceptualizes and assesses the Citizens’ Statements that Citizens’ Initiative Review panels place in the statewide Voters’ Pamphlet. We pose a series of research questions concerning how the public perceives the role of the Citizens’ Initiative Review in initiative elections. We investigate those questions with usability testing sessions held in the final weeks before the 2014 election. Forty interviews were conducted in Portland, Oregon, and 20 were held in Denver, CO, where a pilot version of the Citizens’ Initiative Review was held. Online survey data collected in Oregon and Colorado followed up on the themes that emerged from the usability tests to obtain more general findings about these electorates’ views of elections and the Citizens’ Initiative Review. Key results showed that voters found the Citizens’ Initiative Review Statements to be a useful alternative source of information, although they required more information about the Citizens’ Initiative Review to make robust trust judgments about the process. Voters were uncertain of the value of the vote tally provided by Citizens’ Initiative Review panelists, but reading the Citizens’ Initiative Review Statement inspired some to vote on ballot measures they might have skipped.


American Politics Research | 2017

Assessing the Electoral Impact of the 2010 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review:

John Gastil; Katherine R. Knobloch; Justin Reedy; Mark Henkels; Katherine J. Cramer

The Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) distinguishes itself by linking a small deliberative body to the larger electoral process. Since 2010, CIR citizen panels have been a legislatively authorized part of Oregon general elections to promote a more informed electorate. The CIR gathers a representative cross-section of two dozen voters for 5 days of deliberation on a single ballot measure. The process culminates in the citizen panelists writing a Citizens’ Statement that the secretary of state inserts into the official Voters’ Pamphlet sent to each registered voter. This study analyzes the effect of one such Citizens’ Statement from the 2010 general election. In Study 1, an online survey experiment found that reading this Statement influenced Oregon voters’ values trade-offs, issue knowledge, and vote intentions. In Study 2, regression analysis of a cross-sectional phone survey found a parallel association between the Statement’s use and voting choices but yielded some mixed findings.


Journal of Applied Communication Research | 2013

Did They Deliberate? Applying an Evaluative Model of Democratic Deliberation to the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review

Katherine R. Knobloch; John Gastil; Justin Reedy; Katherine Cramer Walsh


International Journal of Communication | 2014

Vicarious Deliberation: How the Oregon Citizens' Initiative Review Influenced Deliberation in Mass Elections

John Gastil; Robert C. Richards; Katherine R. Knobloch


Archive | 2011

Evaluating Deliberative Public Events and Projects

John Gastil; Katherine R. Knobloch


Politics | 2015

Civic (Re)socialisation: The Educative Effects of Deliberative Participation

Katherine R. Knobloch; John Gastil


Public Administration | 2016

PARTICIPATORY POLICYMAKING ACROSS CULTURAL COGNITIVE DIVIDES: TWO TESTS OF CULTURAL BIASING IN PUBLIC FORUM DESIGN AND DELIBERATION

John Gastil; Katherine R. Knobloch; Dan M. Kahan; Don Braman


Archive | 2016

Mediated meta-deliberation: Making sense of the Australian Citizens’ Parliament

Eike Mark Rinke; Katherine R. Knobloch; John Gastil; Lyn Carson


Field Actions Science Reports. The journal of field actions | 2014

Empowering Citizen Deliberation in Direct Democratic Elections: A Field Study of the 2012 Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review

Katherine R. Knobloch; John Gastil; Traci Feller; Robert C. Richards; Robert C. Jr


Archive | 2016

Assessment of the 2016 Massachusetts Citizens’ Initiative Review Pilot on Question 4

John Gastil; Katherine R. Knobloch; A. Lee Hannah; Cheryl Maiorca; Ernest Paicopolos; Jennifer Watters

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John Gastil

Pennsylvania State University

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Robert C. Richards

Pennsylvania State University

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Justin Reedy

University of Washington

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Traci Feller

University of Washington

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David L. Brinker

Pennsylvania State University

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Don Braman

George Washington University

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Jason Gilmore

University of Washington

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Katherine Cramer Walsh

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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