# Can Deliberation Have Lasting Effects? Reflections on 'America in One Room.'

Status: published
Visibility: public-pdf
Authors: with James Fishkin, Alice Siu, Valentin Bolotnyy, and Norman Bradburn
Venue: American Political Science Review
Year: 2024
DOI: 10.1017/S0003055423001363
Canonical URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003055423001363

## Summary

Drawing on the America in One Room field experiment, this paper asks whether a weekend of structured deliberation can still shape political behavior about a year later. The results show durable effects on turnout intentions, candidate choice, and several components of political engagement, especially among participants whose initial views were not tightly aligned with partisan cues. The mechanism appears to be less about freezing issue opinions in place than about producing a broader civic awakening that carried into the 2020 election.

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