Problems and Purpose

Background History and Context

Organizing, Supporting, and Funding Entities

The Deliberative Poll on the EU (Folkehøring om EU) was organized by the Danish Parliament.

Participant Recruitment and Selection

A very large sample of the national population was drawn randomly (several thousands). These individuals were contacted by phone, and then those who declared interest are re-contacted to make sure they will attend. After several contacts, 105 took part to the event held in the Danish Parliament (Christiansborg). The final sample was rather representative of the Danish population in terms of gender, age, education, region of residence, occupation, interest for politics and voting intention for the referendum. There were some small differences (for example, overrepresentation of men, citizens aged between 40-60, university degree holder, interest in politics and yes vote) but they were not corrected at any stage. The quality of the sample was based on the initially random selection, on the many phone contacts to convince citizens to join, and on the large N.

Methods and Tools Used

What Went On: Process, Interaction, and Participation

Influence, Outcomes, and Effects

In this case, the deliberative poll was not associated with a specific referendum. Therefore, the goal of improving public awareness was a bit less salient, and it was more about public authorities willing to obtain fine-grained information on what Danes think about the EU, its role and its prerogatives. A short report from Gallup and the main results were then presented in the Parliamentary committee on EU affairs within the Danish Parliament. Regarding public awareness, there was a bit of press coverage and the debates were also broadcasted on the TV channel of the Danish Parliament.

Analysis and Lessons Learned

See Also

References

External Links

Notes

This entry is based on the POLITICIZE dataset. More information can be found at the following links:

• Paulis, Emilien; Pilet, Jean-Benoit; Panel, Sophie; Vittori, Davide; Close, Caroline, 2020, "POLITICIZE Dataset", https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z7X6GT, Harvard Dataverse, V1
• Pilet J-B, Paulis E, Panel S.,Vitori D & Close C. 202X The POLITICIZE Dataset: an inventory of Deliberative Mini-Publics (DMPs) in Europe. European Political Science.