par Vittori, Davide 
;Rojon, Sébastien ;Pilet, Jean-Benoît
Référence Comparative European politics
Publication Publié, 2024-03-01
;Rojon, Sébastien ;Pilet, Jean-Benoît Référence Comparative European politics
Publication Publié, 2024-03-01
Article révisé par les pairs
| Résumé : | Europeans, on average, are distrustful toward representative institutions. In recentdecades, to restore confidence in political institutions, several countries have imple-mented alternative decision-making processes. The literature has analyzed prefer-ences for these alternatives, such as direct democracy or technocracy, and their driv-ers. However, these analyses often treated these preferences in isolation, withoutconsidering that citizens might have more complex preferences involving multipleactors in the decision-making process. We test whether this complexity exists in anovel survey experiment where citizens are exposed to two different vignettes aboutdivisive policies in Italy. Our results indicate that, more than anything else, Italiancitizens prefer having their fellow citizens decide alone in referendums. However,they also favor consulting experts before Parliament’s decision. Furthermore, wedemonstrate that while instrumentality is still crucial in evaluating the fairness ofthe processes, certain decision-making processes make losers of the policy outcomeas satisfied as specific groups winners. These findings hold significant implicationsfor citizens’ policy evaluations, highlighting that the decision-making process mightinfluence their overall satisfaction with policies. |
