Abstract
Abstract Chapter 7 discusses how deliberative processes like the Citizens’ Initiative Review (CIR) must contend with the same strategic tactics that diminish the integrity of the wider governing system. This chapter tells the story of how CIR organizers lobbied for its permanent implementation and fended off opponents who were wary that it would undermine their power to sway the electorate. Organizers ultimately prevailed, and the CIR became an official governing institution and a commission was set up to oversee it. In 2012, advocates for one of the measures boycotted the process, forcing organizers to scramble to find replacements who could testify on behalf of the measure. The chapter shows how, in both instances, CIR organizers and proponents returned to the initial premise of deliberation, bringing reason back into politics, to ensure that both the institution and the process were successful.
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