The impact of democratic innovations on citizens’ efficacy

Abstract

More specifically, both practitioners and scholars promote democratic innovations’ as tools that can reinvigorate citizens’ trust in institutions’ responsiveness to their preferences, and promote the citizens’ sense of competence in participating in politics (Finkel, 1985; Gastil & Dillard, 1999; Geissel & Hess, 2017; Mansbridge, 1999; Morrell, 2005; Nabatchi, 2010; Sjoberg, Mellon, & Peixoto, 2015; Smith, 2009)