Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy

Garry, J, Pow, J, Stevenson, C ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2438-6425 and Stone, P, 2022. Imaginative policy surveys in divided societies: feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy. International Political Science Review. ISSN 0192-5121

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Abstract

We suggest a new democratic decision-making (or recommendation-making) device for divided societies that may be added to the democratic toolkit. Imaginative Policy Surveys in divided societies seek to combine the advantages of conventional attitude surveys (ability to generalise to the wider population) with some of the advantages of deliberative mini-publics (citizens learn about policy options and consider the perspective of members of the ethno-national out-group). Imaginative Policy Surveys consist of a conventional survey design with two added features: videos providing information and arguments and an imagined policy dialogue with an out-group member. We test the feasibility, effect and perceived legitimacy of Imaginative Policy Surveys in the deeply divided context of Northern Ireland, drawing on evidence from two experiments. We conclude that Imaginative Policy Surveys in divided societies are feasible, have a slight positive pro-compromise effect, and are perceived to be a legitimate decision-making mechanism to an equal extent by rival ethno-national groups.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Political Science Review
Creators:	Garry, J., Pow, J., Stevenson, C. and Stone, P.
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Date:	14 November 2022
ISSN:	0192-5121
Identifiers:	Number Type 1595532 Other 10.1177/01925121221125049 DOI
Rights:	© the author(s) 2022. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
Divisions:	Schools > School of Social Sciences
Record created by:	Laura Ward
Date Added:	08 Sep 2022 15:51
Last Modified:	08 Dec 2022 13:59
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/47001

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