Can the Mass Public Deliberate in a Semi-Authoritarian Setting? — Examining Reasoning in Macau’s Deliberative Poll

• In Event: Authoritarianism: Asian Styles

Brief Overview

Using large scale hand coding and automated text analysis, this paper finds that high-level participant reasoning in a deliberation contributed to unexpected opinion shifts away from government regulation of the press in semi-authoritarian Macau.

Author

• Kaiping Chen, Stanford University