{"title":"II Political Science : Method and Theory / Science Politique : Méthodes et Théories","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00208345241262094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241262094","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"12 3","pages":"395 - 419"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141409506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"V Political Process : Public Opinion, Attitudes, Parties, Forces, Groups and Elections / vie Politique : Opinion Publique, Attitudes, Partis, Forces, Groupes et Élections","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00208345241262400","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241262400","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"17 6","pages":"445 - 494"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141404757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Subject Index / Index des Matiéres","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00208345241262407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241262407","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"46 14","pages":"I - XXVII"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141403470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"List of Periodicals / Liste des Périodiques","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00208345241262406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241262406","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"20 1","pages":"553 - 559"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141416025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in Mini-Publics Research: High Expectations, Mixed Findings, and Clear-Cut Challenges","authors":"Yanina Welp","doi":"10.1177/00208345241262093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241262093","url":null,"abstract":"Mini-publics have been spreading, particularly in Western countries, with the aim of resolving some deficits of current democracies. An abundant literature focuses on the study of their theoretical expectations and empirical manifestations as well as on the main controversies faced by this deliberative institution. In this article, I review the academic conversation along the three core principles of mini-publics: the conditions and criteria for deliberation to produce informed public opinion; the conceptual and empirical difficulties to achieve inclusiveness, representativeness, and political equality; and the conditions for and challenges of having public influence.","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"25 9","pages":"383 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141415100","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trends in Theorizing Sortition","authors":"Peter Stone, Audrey M. Plan","doi":"10.1177/00208345241247492","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00208345241247492","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, political scientists have devoted increasing attention to sortition – the random selection of ordinary citizens for political decision-making. This has been accompanied by a number of real-world experiments in which randomly-selected bodies provide input into the political process. The result has been a large and growing literature on the topic. Recent contributions to that literature have detailed proposals for expanded use of sortition, most of which combine election and sortition in innovative and ambitious ways. The use of sortition in these proposals is justified in various ways, many of which involve the way random selection can generate bodies capable of high-quality deliberation. There is more controversy regarding the connection between sortition and democracy. Some regard sortition as a uniquely democratic selection mechanism, while others regard election and sortition as advancing competing democratic values, generating the need for a tradeoff between them. Future research on sortition will no doubt further explore both the value of sortition and its democratic credentials.","PeriodicalId":475179,"journal":{"name":"International Political Science Abstracts","volume":"71 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140759062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}