TY - JOUR
T1 - Disaggregating deliberations effects
T2 - An experiment within a deliberative poll
AU - Farrar, Cynthia
AU - Fishkin, James S.
AU - Green, Donald P.
AU - List, Christian
AU - Luskin, Robert C.
AU - Levy Paluck, Elizabeth
PY - 2010/2
Y1 - 2010/2
N2 - Using data from a randomized field experiment within a Deliberative Poll, this paper examines deliberations effects on both policy attitudes and the extent to which ordinal rankings of policy options approach single-peakedness (a help in avoiding cyclical majorities). The setting was New Haven, Connecticut, and its surrounding towns; the issues were airport expansion and revenue sharing - the former highly salient, the latter not at all. Half the participants deliberated revenue sharing, then the airport; the other half the reverse. This split-half design helps distinguish the effects of the formal on-site deliberations from those of other aspects of the treatment. As expected, the highly salient airport issue saw only a slight effect, while much less salient revenue-sharing issue saw a much larger one.
AB - Using data from a randomized field experiment within a Deliberative Poll, this paper examines deliberations effects on both policy attitudes and the extent to which ordinal rankings of policy options approach single-peakedness (a help in avoiding cyclical majorities). The setting was New Haven, Connecticut, and its surrounding towns; the issues were airport expansion and revenue sharing - the former highly salient, the latter not at all. Half the participants deliberated revenue sharing, then the airport; the other half the reverse. This split-half design helps distinguish the effects of the formal on-site deliberations from those of other aspects of the treatment. As expected, the highly salient airport issue saw only a slight effect, while much less salient revenue-sharing issue saw a much larger one.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0007123409990433
DO - 10.1017/S0007123409990433
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77953617039
SN - 0007-1234
VL - 40
SP - 333
EP - 347
JO - British Journal of Political Science
JF - British Journal of Political Science
IS - 2
ER -