Social Difference and the Common Good: An Experiment on the Effect of Group Salience on Citizen Deliberation

Mini-publics, such as citizens' assemblies and juries, typically invite a small number of citizens to deliberate on political issue. To ensure the inclusion different social groups, scholars usually suggest stratified or quota sampling. However, given that sampling method is known selected participants, measures not only secure presence individuals from groups; they also emphasize salience group differences. Since deliberative process involves both highlighting transcending differences, this paper explores whether emphasis difference associated with triggers trade-off between expectations observing acknowledging one hand, humble communication reflexivity in deliberation, other hand. The main finding emphasizing differences raises without lowering prospect reflexivity.