Hiroko Ide

Hiroko plans to conduct experiments to examine the effects of deliberative discussions. Whereas deliberation requires understanding opposing sides, participation is often facilitated by one-sided partisan enthusiasm. Contrary to this apparent tension between deliberation and participation, Hiroko s fieldwork on citizen deliberations in Japan has found that randomly selected participants of deliberative meetings increased their intent to participate in future deliberations, if not voting. To test two hypotheses generated to explain the difference between the Japanese case and the suggested tension, Hiroko is planning a comparative study of deliberative experiments in the US and Japan.