Postes occupés

2007-2008

Chercheur-se postdoctoral-e, Éthique et politique

Biographie

Recherche lors de mon passage au CRÉUM: «The Time for Preference Change in Deliberative Decision Making»

My research plan involved the creation of a research design for an empirical study of the activity of deliberation, which was to be conducted in Sào Paulo, Brazil. This study was to replicate a previous quasi-experiment conducted by Goodin and Niemeyer («When Does Deliberation Begin?» Political Studies, 2003), but with some significant alterations to their model of deliberation. In their study, they analyzed the deliberations of a citizen jury on an Australian environmental issue for the sake of answering the research question, «Does preference change occur when participants are internally reflecting on new information (information phase) or when they are engaged in discussion with others (discussion phase)? The measurement instruments are pre- and post-phase questionnaires in which participants are asked what their policy preference is and whether it has changed. If their preference has changed, they are asked to rank the factors that they think influenced the change, from most to least likely: (i) learned more, (ii) listened to witnesses, (iii) shifted their perspective and (iv) group discussion.

 

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«Some Endeavours at Synthesising a Solution to the Sorites,» Minerva: The Internet Journal of Philosophy (November 1999 issue), University of Limerick, Ireland. cliquer ici