Deliberative Quality and Expertise: Uses of Evidence in Citizens’ Juries on Wind Farms

When addressing socio-scientific wicked problems, there is a need to negotiate across and through multiple modes of evidence, particularly technical expertise local knowledge. Democratic innovations, such as deliberative citizens’ juries, have been proposed means managing these tensions way creating representative, fairer decision making. But are questions around participatory processes, the utilization expertise, quality. This paper considers forms argumentation in 2013-2014 “Citizens’ juries on wind farm development Scotland.” Through critical-interpretative research methodology drawing rhetoric argumentation, we demonstrate that arguments relating topoi environment health functioned de facto reasoning, whereas using social scientific evidence economics more prominently interacted with The findings offer implications for process design improve promote quality mini-publics other engagement issues.