Deliberation and civic virtue: Lessons from a citizen deliberation experiment

European Political Science Review

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-117

  Grönlund, Kimmo ^a   Setälä, Maija ^b   Herne, Kaisa ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

Author keywords

civic virtue; deliberation; deliberative democracy; experimental research; mini publics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011531846     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773909990245     Document Type: Article

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