[en] This note introduces the POLITICIZE dataset which contains information on the characteristics of 105 Deliberative Mini-Publics (DMPs) that took place in Europe between 2000 and 2020. Based on coding of experts regarding cases of real-life deliberative experiments in 18 different European countries, the dataset describes the core features of DMPs in Europe. It comprises information on three crucial dimensions: their composition (who deliberates?), their format (how do they deliberate?) and their role (what do they deliberate about and what are their prerogatives?). Hence, the note presents the different variables included in the dataset and reports empirical variations across them, thereby presenting the main contribution of the POLITICIZE dataset: delivering the most systematic and comprehensive efforts of data collection on mini-publics in Europe.
Disciplines :
Sociology & social sciences
Author, co-author :
PAULIS, Emilien ; University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Humanities, Education and Social Sciences (FHSE) > Department of Humanities (DHUM) > Philosophy ; Centre d’Etude de La Vie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Pilet, Jean-Benoit; Centre d’Etude de La Vie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Panel, Sophie; Centre d’Etude de La Vie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Vittori, Davide; Centre d’Etude de La Vie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
Close, Caroline; Centre d’Etude de La Vie Politique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
External co-authors :
yes
Language :
English
Title :
The POLITICIZE dataset: an inventory of deliberative mini-publics (DMPs) in Europe
Acknowledgements The POLITICIZE Database is part of a research project financed by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No 772695). We would like to thank all country experts who contributed to the data collection, as well as the team of the C03 Project ‘Doing Mini-Publics’ (https://www.sfb1265.de/en/subpr ojects/doing-mini-publics/) for sharing their data on mini-publics in Germany. The authors are also grateful for the comments they received from the reviewers.1 The POLITICIZE project is a project supervised by Jean-Benoit Pilet (Université libre de Bruxelles). It has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement No 772695).
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