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Project

Perceived Procedural Fairness of Decision-Making Methods, Political Trust and Collective Goods. A Comparative Experimental Design.

Several liberal democracies are currently confronted with an alleged loss of legitimacy and trust in the central political institutions and actors (Dalton 2004). However, contemporary citizens are still believed to be supportive of a democractic ideal yet they are dissatisfied with the current functioning of democratic institutions (Norris 2011). Increasing the involvement of citizens in the decision-making process (e.g. through a referendum, a town hall meeting or other forms of democratic innovation) has been frequently put forth as a panacea to address this dissatisfaction. Focusing on decision-making procedures is an important venue to address this problem as the perception of procedural fairness can induce citizens to follow political decisions and increase their willingness to contribute to the collective good regardless of the favourability of the outcome (Hetherington 2005; Tyler 2011). However, empirical evidence is limited and often based on singlecountry studies. Therefore, within this project we propose to investigate cross-nationally the effect of various types of decision-making processes on perceptions of procedural fairness, political trust, and willingness to contribute to the public good. In particular, we propose to conduct a number of experiments in three different countries in which we manipulate the method of decision-making and the impact of involvement and investigate the effect on willingness to contribute to the public good.

Date:1 Jan 2015 →  31 Dec 2018
Keywords:'fairness' van politieke beslissingsproc
Disciplines:Other economics and business, Citizenship, immigration and political inequality, International and comparative politics, Multilevel governance, National politics, Political behaviour, Political organisations and institutions, Political theory and methodology, Public administration, Other political science