Public trust in citizens’ juries when the people decide on policies: evidence from Switzerland

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Policy Studies Pub Date : 2022-06-26 DOI:10.1080/01442872.2022.2091125

Alexander Matthias Geisler

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Facilitative political trust is the reduction in cognitive demand citizens experience when forming their opinions about political issues. This type of trust is important for generating legitimate democratic institutions in the eyes of politically uninvolved citizens. The article develops and validates an original direct measure of facilitative political trust among voters receiving a voting aid compiled by a Swiss municipal-level deliberative minipublic convening twenty citizens ahead of a federal popular initiative vote on expanding affordable housing policies. Based on perceiving the randomly selected group as competent and aligned with voters’ interests, we find a reliable and valid latent trust measure using confirmatory factor analyses among the same sample of voters within the municipality at two points during the campaign, ahead (N = 1159), and again around the time of the ballot (N = 472). In subsequent multiple regressions, increases in facilitative trust sores are the main driver of readers’ ratings of both the voting aid’s usefulness for deciding how to vote and of how important they judge its information for their peers’ vote decisions.

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当人民决定政策时，公众信任公民陪审团:来自瑞士的证据

促进性政治信任是指公民在形成政治观点时所经历的认知需求的减少。在不参与政治的公民眼中，这种信任对于建立合法的民主制度非常重要。本文发展并验证了一种原始的直接措施，即在接受投票援助的选民中促进政治信任，该措施是由瑞士市级审议小型公众召集20名公民，在联邦民众就扩大经济适用房政策进行全民投票之前编制的。基于将随机选择的群体视为有能力且与选民利益一致的群体，我们在竞选期间的两个时间点(N = 1159)和投票前后(N = 472)对市政内同一样本的选民进行验证性因素分析，找到了可靠而有效的潜在信任度量。在随后的多重回归中，促进性信任值的增加是读者对投票辅助工具对决定如何投票的有用性以及他们判断其信息对同伴投票决定的重要性的评级的主要驱动因素。

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Policy Studies PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION-

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5.40

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4.50%

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期刊介绍： These changes at the structural level of the global system have impacted upon the work of public organizations either directly or indirectly and have broadened the field of action in policy studies. It has five main areas of intellectual interest: 1.To broaden the lens of policy analysis through the publication of research which locates policy-making within a theoretical, historical or comparative perspective. 2.To widen the field of enquiry in policy analysis through the publication of research that examines policy issues in a British, comparative, international or global context. 3.To promote constructive debate on theoretical, methodological and empirical issues in policy analysis.