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Democratic Innovation in Times of Crisis : Exploring Changes in Social and Political Trust
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- Karlsson, Martin, 1982- (author)
- Örebro University,Örebro universitet,Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap
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- Åström, Joachim, 1973- (author)
- Örebro University,Örebro universitet,Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap
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- Adenskog, Magnus (author)
- Lund University,Lunds universitet,Socialhögskolan,Samhällsvetenskapliga institutioner och centrumbildningar,Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten,School of Social Work,Departments of Administrative, Economic and Social Sciences,Faculty of Social Sciences
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- 2020-08-06
- 2021
- English.
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In: Policy & Internet. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1944-2866. ; 13:1, s. 113-133
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- The Estonian Citizens’ Assembly (ECA) was initiated in late 2012 as a direct consequence of a legitimacy crisis of Estonian political parties and representative institutions. The spark igniting this crisis was the unravelling of a scheme of illegal party financing. The response from the governmental institutions took the form of a democratic innovation involving public crowd-sourcing and deliberative mini-publics. This study reports on a survey among the participants in the online crowd-sourcing process of the ECA (n=847). The study examines how this democratic innovation influenced participants’ social and political trust as well as the impact of participants predispositions and level of satisfaction with the ECA on changes in trust. We find that participants that had positive predispositions and who were satisfied with the ECA were more likely to gain trust. Further, we also find that the participants in general became more distrustful of political institutions, while their participation fostered increased social trust. This outcome departs from the intentions of the Estonian institutions which organized the ECA, and sheds new light on the role of democratic innovations in the context of legitimacy crises. This is an important step forward in the scholarly understanding of the relationship between democratic innovation and trust.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Statsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Political Science (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Online participation
- political trust
- social trust
- democratic innovation
- crowdsourcing
- Estonian Citizens’ Assembly
- deliberation
- Political Science
- Statskunskap
- Online participation
- deliberation
- Estonian Citizens’ Assembly
- crowdsourcing
- democratic innovation
- Social trust
- political trust
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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