TY - UNPB

T1 - Do Election Rules Affect Deliberation?

T2 - An Experiment on Deliberative Election Rules and Group Trust

AU - Nielsen, Julie

AU - Wind, Marlene

PY - 2013/1/22

Y1 - 2013/1/22

N2 - Enhanced deliberation has been prescribed as the way forward to improve democratic decision-making, while generating positive attributes like trust and legitimacy. Yet, we do not know to what extent different decision-making election rules affect the deliberative process and its outcome. This article investigates to what extent different election rules in deliberative decision-making affect group trust by testing three ideal types of election rules (i.e. a dictator election rule, a representative election rule and a consensus rule) in a laboratory experiment. The findings show that the differences in election rules have a significant impact on the level of trust after deliberation. Interestingly, however, we find that the election rule of representative democracy yield more group trust than does the election rule of pure consensus and non-hierarchical decision-making. Thus our findings challenge the understanding by deliberative normative theorists that the more inclusion and consensus in the decision-making procedure the more trust and legitimacy amongst its participants.

AB - Enhanced deliberation has been prescribed as the way forward to improve democratic decision-making, while generating positive attributes like trust and legitimacy. Yet, we do not know to what extent different decision-making election rules affect the deliberative process and its outcome. This article investigates to what extent different election rules in deliberative decision-making affect group trust by testing three ideal types of election rules (i.e. a dictator election rule, a representative election rule and a consensus rule) in a laboratory experiment. The findings show that the differences in election rules have a significant impact on the level of trust after deliberation. Interestingly, however, we find that the election rule of representative democracy yield more group trust than does the election rule of pure consensus and non-hierarchical decision-making. Thus our findings challenge the understanding by deliberative normative theorists that the more inclusion and consensus in the decision-making procedure the more trust and legitimacy amongst its participants.

KW - deliberation

KW - election rules

KW - trust game

KW - decision-making processes

KW - experiments

KW - voting

KW - deliberation

KW - election rules

KW - trust game

KW - decision-maiking processes

KW - experiments

KW - voting

U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.2204355

DO - 10.2139/ssrn.2204355

M3 - Working paper

BT - Do Election Rules Affect Deliberation?

ER -