Muradova, LalaSuiter, Jane2023-05-152023-05-152022Muradova L, Suiter J. Public compliance with difficult political decisions in times of a pandemic: does citizen deliberation help?. Int J Public Opin Res. 2022;34(3):edac026. DOI: 10.1093/ijpor/edac0260954-2892http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56813Bridging deliberative democracy and crisis management scholarship, we construct theoretical expectations about the role of deliberative minipublics in fostering public compliance with difficult political decisions. Our expectations are tested with a randomized cross-national survey experiment (United States and United Kingdom, N = 2088), in which respondents read a realistic news item depicting a political decision-making process leading to the extension of COVID-19 lockdown measures that follows either a (1) citizen deliberation, (2) public consultation, (3) politician deliberation, or (4) nothing. The findings show minipublics are unlikely to foster public compliance during a health crisis. On the contrary, reading about a minipublic could decrease compliance when individuals are distrustful of minipublics. This study has implications for citizen participation, deliberation, and leadership during future pandemics.application/pdfeng© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The World Association for Public Opinion Research. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited.Pandèmia de COVID-19, 2020-PolíticaParticipació comunitàriainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ijpor/edac026info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess