From citizens' deliberation to popular will formation? Generating democratic legitimacy in transnational deliberative polling

Political Studies

Volumn 62, Issue S1, 2014, Pages 117-133

  Olsen, Espen D H ^a   Trenz, Hans Jörg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b Cognition and Communication ^*  (Denmark)

Author keywords

Citizens; Deliberation; Deliberative polling; Democratic legitimacy; European Union

Indexed keywords

EID: 84874381946     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9248.12021     Document Type: Article

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