Alexander Geisler
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Geisler
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Alexander
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alexander.geisler@unisg.ch
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Item type:Publication, The Ebb and Flow: Examining the Promises and Pitfalls of the ‘Deliberative Wave’ MetaphorThis article critically examines the ‘deliberative wave’ metaphor, a popular term describing the rise of deliberative mini-publics and democratic innovations. While acknowledging its value in communicating a growing trend and raising public awareness, the article argues that the metaphor carries significant dangers. It risks oversimplifying complex political processes, fostering unrealistic expectations, and inadequately addressing crucial issues of power dynamics, exclusion, and the diverse nuances within deliberative theory and practice. The article discusses alternative theoretical conceptualizations, such as ‘deliberative systems’, ‘empowered participatory governance’, 'open democracy', and other metaphors to offer a more nuanced understanding. This analysis contributes to the scholarly debate by urging a more critical assessment of democratic innovations that bridges the gap between normative theory and empirical realities.Type:journal articleJournal:RepresentationScopus© Citations 1 - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Designing the process of random selection of citizens' assemblies(Imprint Academic Ltd, 2025-01-06) - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from SwitzerlandFacilitative political trust is the reduction in cognitive demand citizens experience when forming their opinions about political issues. This type of trust is important for generating legitimate democratic institutions in the eyes of politically uninvolved citizens. The article develops and validates an original direct measure of facilitative political trust among voters receiving a voting aid compiled by a Swiss municipal-level deliberative minipublic convening twenty citizens ahead of a federal popular initiative vote on expanding affordable housing policies. Based on perceiving the randomly selected group as competent and aligned with voters’ interests, we find a reliable and valid latent trust measure using confirmatory factor analyses among the same sample of voters within the municipality at two points during the campaign, ahead (N = 1159), and again around the time of the ballot (N = 472). In subsequent multiple regressions, increases in facilitative trust sores are the main driver of readers’ ratings of both the voting aid’s usefulness for deciding how to vote and of how important they judge its information for their peers’ vote decisions.Type:journal articleJournal:Policy StudiesVolume:44Issue:6Scopus© Citations 9