Representative Juries: Examining the Initial and Eligible Pools of Juries
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
The nature of the beast: are citizens’ juries deliberative or pluralist?
Citizens’ juries are a form of ‘‘minipublics,’’ small-scale experiments with citizen participation in public decision-making. The article presents a theoretical argument that improves understanding relating to the design of the citizens’ jury. We develop the claim that two discourses on democracy can be discerned: the deliberative and the pluralist. By looking at the design features of citizens...
متن کاملPublic Participation: More than a Method?; Comment on “Harnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries”
While it is important to support the development of methods for public participation, we argue that this should not be at the expense of a broader consideration of the role of public participation. We suggest that a rights based approach provides a framework for developing more meaningful approaches that move beyond public participation as synonymous with consultation to value the contribution ...
متن کاملHarnessing the Potential to Quantify Public Preferences for Healthcare Priorities through Citizens’ Juries
Despite progress towards greater public engagement, questions about the optimal approach to access public preferences remain unanswered. We review two increasingly popular methods for engaging the public in healthcare priority-setting and determining their preferences; the Citizens’ Jury (CJ) and Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE). We discuss the theoretical framework from which each method is de...
متن کاملChoices without reasons: citizens' juries and policy evaluation.
Citizens' juries are commended as a new technique for democratising health service reviews. Their usefulness is said to derive from a reliance on citizens' rational deliberation rather than on the immediate preferences of the consumer. The author questions the assertion of critical detachment and asks whether juries do in fact employ reason as a means of resolving fundamental disagreements abou...
متن کاملLay Juries, Professional Arbitrators and the Arbitrator Selection Hypothesis
Do civil juries follow the broad dictates of the law? For example, do those plaintiffs who suffer greater damages receive greater awards? Do juries empty “deep pockets,” and, if so, by how much? Are juries consistent? In many states automobile accidents are first tried by a professional arbitrator and then by a jury if one of the litigants is dissatisfied with the outcome. How do the decisions ...
متن کامل