Magnusson2020

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Magnusson2020
BibType ARTICLE
Key Magnusson2020
Author(s) Simon Magnusson
Title Constructing young citizens’ deontic authority in participatory democracy meetings
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Tag(s) EMCA, Authority, Participatory democracy, Instructions, Youth participation, Deontics
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Year 2020
Language English
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Journal Discourse & Communication
Volume 14
Number 6
Pages 600–618
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DOI 10.1177/1750481320939704
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Howpublished
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Abstract

Young citizens are increasingly being invited to take part in participatory democracy meetings as joint decision-making has grown popular in public administration. The backbone of participatory democracy is that some authority is granted to the citizenry and by drawing on video data (38 hours) from a year-long participatory project, this conversation analytic study shows that the adolescents are instructed to a deontic role rooted in epistemics, benefactive considerations, as well as temporal aspects relating to future citizenship and hope. The institutional representatives perform actions that determine how the adolescents should, in their turn, perform actions of influence. In this way, authority is ascribed through an ambivalent configuration in which compliance with the directives is supposed to establish a strengthened deontic position.

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