Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings

Bibliographic Data

ID21255240
AuthorsEspen Leirset (Nord University, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume17
Issue1
Publication date2021-03-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Deliberative Democracy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2634-0488 • E-ISSN: 2634-0488
PublisherUniversity of Westminster Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.16997/jdd.966
OpenAlexW3140316256
LanguageEN
References cited17

Transparency in politics is a core value of democracy, but has to be balanced with politicians' need for deliberation arenas. Norway and Denmark have relatively similar political systems at the municipal level, but the balance between openness and deliberation is approached in different ways: Denmark emphasizes closed political meetings and deliberation, Norway emphasizes open meetings and democratic control. This comparative study of two Danish and two Norwegian municipalities shows that closed meetings makes politicians more able to deliberate, and that mandatory open meetings move deliberation to informal meetings, and thus creates less ability to consensus-based politics

Danish · Deliberation · Democracy · Norwegian · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Computer Science · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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