Minipublics in the hot seat: Contextualising the effects of minipublics on perceived political legitimacy among the public at large KU Leuven
Across established democracies, many citizens express disenchantment with present-day democracy and have little confidence in the existing representative system (Citrin & Stoker, 2018; Mansbridge, 2018). This gives rise to concerns about democracy’s stability and its ability to tackle the challenges of today and tomorrow (Tomassen & van Ham, 2017; van der Meer & Zmerli, 2017). An often-proposed response is to reform the process of ...