Convening a Minipublic During a Pandemic: A Case Study of the Oregon Citizens’ Assembly Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Convening a Minipublic During a Pandemic: A Case Study of the Oregon Citizens’ Assembly Pilot on COVID-19 Recovery

Published:2022-04-30 Issue:2 Volume:3 Page:1-19
ISSN:2691-199X
Container-title:Digital Government: Research and Practice
language:en
Short-container-title:Digit. Gov.: Res. Pract.

Author:

Gastil John¹^ORCID,Anderson Chris²^ORCID,Black Laura³^ORCID,Burkhalter Stephanie⁴^ORCID,Han Soo-Hye⁵^ORCID,Reedy Justin⁶^ORCID,Richards Robert⁷^ORCID,Rountree John⁸^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Departments of Communication Arts & Sciences and Political Science and Senior Scholar at the McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA

2. Department of Communication, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

3. Department of Communication Studies, Ohio University, Athens, OH

4. Department of Politics, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Arcata, CA

5. Department of English, Tsuda University, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan

6. Department of Communication and Research Associate in the Institute for Public Policy Research & Analysis, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK

7. Clinton School of Public Service, University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR

8. Department of Arts & Communication, University of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX

Abstract

From July–August, 2020, the nonprofit organization Healthy Democracy convened a seven-week pilot test of an online Citizen Assembly on the state of Oregon's response to the COVID-19 pandemic. This pilot project presented a unique research opportunity, because its organizers had ten years of experience running the Citizens’ Initiative Review, a face-to-face minipublic authorized by the State of Oregon to write voting guides for the wider electorate on ballot measures. This case study compares survey data from the Citizen Assembly pilot with the prior Citizens’ Initiative Reviews and provides analysis and recommendations that could improve the design and execution of future online assemblies.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Public Administration,Software,Information Systems,Computer Science Applications,Computer Networks and Communications

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3524064

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