Deliberation in unlikely places: Why deeply divided societies introduce deliberative citizen participation. KU Leuven
Divided societies, characterised by strongly politicised segmentation, are often portrayed as unsuitable for deliberative citizen participation. Due to a perceived inability to engage in consensus- oriented debate, deliberative ideals are considered unrealisable. Yet, the growing interest of political elites in deliberative citizen participation is hardly explored, even though its implementation seems paradoxical from a scientific perspective ...