A new article by EnCiv founder and COO Adolf Gundersen takes a deeper dive into the the Chicago election discussion project we partnered on during the summer and fall of 2018. The article was appeared in the online journal National Civic Review, a publication of the National Civic League.
The article concludes by noting that:
“Although debate is certain to continue among scholars about whether and how deliberation ‘makes citizens better,’ this natural experiment in local election coverage makes abundantly clear that deliberation can ‘make journalism better’ in the terms that matter most to journalists, candidates, and hundreds of thousands of readers alike.”
The bulk of the article is devoted to explaining how the project succeeded in using citizen discussion to improve voter information.
Read the whole article here.
