The black box of preferences for political decision-making processes: who want to innovate within democracies and why? KU Leuven
Democratic innovations have been largely proposed as procedures with which address the democratic legitimacy deficit in advanced democracies. However, little is known empirically about the societal demand for these procedures. One of the objectives of this thesis is to open the black box of citizens’ process preferences in order to acquire knowledge on who and why some citizens demand participatory and deliberative reforms in order to improve ...