Testing the Empirical Claims of Deliberative Democracy: Focused Q&A Outperforms Deliberation for Increasing Knowledge, Sophistication, and Efficacy.

• In Event: Political Communication: Deliberation and Debate

Brief Overview

In a laboratory setting I test deliberation's ability to increase subjects' factual political knowledge, sophistication, and efficacy. I find that deliberation is outperformed by a Q&A treatment. I confirm these results in a real-world setting.

Author

• Christopher M Celaya, Harvard University