TY  - JOUR
AU  - Fiket, Irena
AU  - Trenz, Hans Joerg
AU  - Olsen, Espen D. H.
PY  - 2011
UR  - http://www.sv.uio.no/arena/english/research/publications/arena-working-papers/2011/wp-09-11.pdf
UR  - http://rifdt.instifdt.bg.ac.rs/123456789/1767
AB  - In this paper, we confront some commonly held assumptions and objections
with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual
setting. To illustrate our argument, we rely on a solid set of both
quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative
experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European
Parliamentary elections. The European deliberative poll is an ideal case for
testing the viability of deliberative democracy across political cultures because
it introduces variation in terms of constituency and group plurality under the
controlled conditions of a scientific experiment. On the basis of our
measurement of both participants’ self-perceptions and changes of opinions
through questionnaires and of group dynamics and interactions through
qualitative coding of group discussions we can identify the following patterns:
1) The EU polity is generally recognised and taken as a reference point by
participants for exercising communicative power and impact on decisionmaking,
2) the Europolis experiment proves that participants are in fact able to
interact and debate across languages and cultures, developing a selfawareness
of citizens of a shared polity and thereby turning a heterogeneous
group of randomly selected group into a constituency of democracy.
PB  - Oslo : Arena
T2  - ARENA Working Paper
T1  - Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment
IS  - 9
UR  - https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_1767
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Fiket, Irena and Trenz, Hans Joerg and Olsen, Espen D. H.",
year = "2011",
abstract = "In this paper, we confront some commonly held assumptions and objections
with regard to the feasibility of deliberation in a transnational and plurilingual
setting. To illustrate our argument, we rely on a solid set of both
quantitative and qualitative data from Europolis, a transnational deliberative
experiment that took place one week ahead of the 2009 European
Parliamentary elections. The European deliberative poll is an ideal case for
testing the viability of deliberative democracy across political cultures because
it introduces variation in terms of constituency and group plurality under the
controlled conditions of a scientific experiment. On the basis of our
measurement of both participants’ self-perceptions and changes of opinions
through questionnaires and of group dynamics and interactions through
qualitative coding of group discussions we can identify the following patterns:
1) The EU polity is generally recognised and taken as a reference point by
participants for exercising communicative power and impact on decisionmaking,
2) the Europolis experiment proves that participants are in fact able to
interact and debate across languages and cultures, developing a selfawareness
of citizens of a shared polity and thereby turning a heterogeneous
group of randomly selected group into a constituency of democracy.",
publisher = "Oslo : Arena",
journal = "ARENA Working Paper",
title = "Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment",
number = "9",
url = "https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_1767"
}

Fiket, I., Trenz, H. J.,& Olsen, E. D. H.. (2011). Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment. in ARENA Working Paper
Oslo : Arena.(9).
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_1767

Fiket I, Trenz HJ, Olsen EDH. Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment. in ARENA Working Paper. 2011;(9).
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_1767 .

Fiket, Irena, Trenz, Hans Joerg, Olsen, Espen D. H., "Deliberation under conditions of language pluralism. Insight from the Europolis Deliberative Polling Experiment" in ARENA Working Paper, no. 9 (2011),
https://hdl.handle.net/21.15107/rcub_rifdt_1767 .