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Dimension: Measurability

Evaluate processes

Ability to measure desired outcomes to compare methods, processes and systems.

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Process organizers
Process organizers determine criteria for successful processes and develop indicators for when criteria are met.
Citizens' assembly organizers
Citizens' assembly organizers primarily rely on pre- and post-process surveys for evaluation. Comparisons are typically an auditing exercise against established standards that aren't derived from empirical data.

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Related Goals and Research Questions

Goal: Process outcomes that can be empirically measured and compared across contexts, processes and systems, enabling evidence-based improvements

What constellation of outcomes (spanning legitimacy, recommendation quality, participant satisfaction, opinion change, and downstream policy impact) must any democratic process achieve to be considered successful, and how do these vary with process purpose?

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Political Science
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How can process outcomes (spanning legitimacy, recommendation quality, participant satisfaction, opinion change, and downstream policy impact) be operationalized as measurable indicators practitioners can feasibly collect?

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Statistics & Sampling
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Which evaluation metrics (comparing single-dimension vs. composite indices) are sensitive enough to detect quality differences within similar processes but robust enough for valid comparison across different topics, geographies, and participant populations?

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Statistics & Sampling
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How can practitioners balance (through adaptive protocols or meta-evaluation frameworks) universal standards for cross-context learning against context-specific adaptations required by local stakeholder concerns and governance structures?

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Political Science
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Related Resources

Perception of the legitimacy of citizens' assemblies in deeply divided places

This paper seeks to measure how much public and elite support is there for the use of a citizens’ assembly to tackle major, deadlock-inducing disagreements in deeply divided places with consociational political institutions. It focuses on Northern Ireland and uses evidence from a cross-sectional ...
Research
Garry, J. et al.

It's Not Just the Taking Part that Counts: 'Like Me' Perceptions Connect the Wider Public to Minipublics

Many deliberative democrats herald the potential of minipublics to help improve the quality of democratic decision-making. Yet these democratic innovations present a paradox: how can the use of minipublics be perceived as legitimate by the maxi-public when most citizens cannot participate? This a...
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Pow, J., van Dijk, L. & Marien, S.