The Deliberative Quality of Discussions in a Mini-Public

• In Event: Polarization and Intergroup Dynamics

Brief Overview

We analyse discussions from four mini-public experiments. We study the effect of the context (topic, treatment condition) and individual characteristics (gender, age, education) on the quality of discussion measured with the Discourse Quality Index.

Authors

• Kaisa Maria Herne, University of Tampere

• Kimmo Gronlund, Åbo Akademi University