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Legitimacy in the participants’ eyes : a call for participants’ authorship over mini-public design in Brussels
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Author
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Abstract
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| In response to the limitations of elite-driven democratic innovations, social movements have proposed democratic innovations that are democracy-driven. They claim that democracy-driven governance generates legitimacy by better responding to citizens’ demands. However, whether participating citizens support this claim remains unclear. Under what conditions do participants accept the legitimacy of a mini-public that has been set up by a social movement party? We examine this question by conducting an in-depth case study of the Brussels Citizens’ Assembly organized by the Agora movement party throughout its entire process. Adopting mixed-methods, we find that participants’ perceived legitimacy is shaped by a process-long, dynamic interaction between organizers and participants. Legitimacy is enhanced when organizers grant participants authorship over the BCA’s procedural design and breaks down when they fail to do so. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Critical Policy Studies. - Place of publication unknown, 2007, currens
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Publication
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Place of publication unknown
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2022
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ISSN
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1946-0171
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DOI
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10.1080/19460171.2022.2157297
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Volume/pages
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(2022)
, p. 1-20
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