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


https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/966/
Norway (Norge, Noreg)

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

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.

Leirset, E., (2021) “Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings”, Journal of Deliberative Democracy 17(1), 1-8. doi: https://doi.org/10.16997/jdd.966

Organization Type: Academic / research organization
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Parent Organization: Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
Last Modified: 8/5/2024
Added on: 3/17/2023

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