Constitution Making and Deliberative Democracy Cost Action
Abstract
The Cherrypicking projectdeveloped an innovative methodological strategy to assess the consequences of participatory processes. This led to a number of publications on the determinants of the fate of citizens’ proposals, amongst other considerations. The completion of the project marks an opportunity to reflect critically on our methodological choices and the substantive findings from the research. This paperconsiders what we learned from the project and how this relates to on-going debates about methodological strategies to analyze the consequences of participatory processes. To what extent do the methodological choices adopted condition the results reached?What are the theoretical and practical implications of our findings? Is the evidence we uncovered generalizable to different social and political contexts
