Facilitative political trust is the reduction in cognitive demand citizens experience when forming their opinions about issues. This type of important for generating legitimate democratic institutions eyes politically uninvolved citizens. The article develops and validates an original direct measure facilitative among voters receiving a voting aid compiled by Swiss municipal-level deliberative ...

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 grou...

OBJECTIVE To elicit the views of well-informed community members on the acceptability of proposed policy interventions designed to improve community use of antibiotics in Australia. DESIGN Two community juries held in 2016. SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Western Sydney and Dubbo communities in NSW, Australia. Twenty-nine participants of diverse social and cultural backgrounds, mixed genders and a...

Citizens'/community juries [CJs] engage members of the public in policy decision-making processes. CJs can be employed to develop policy responses to health problems that require the consideration of both community values and scientific evidence. Based on the principles of deliberative democracy, recent reviews indicate that findings from CJs have successfully been used to influence health poli...

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...

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...