Citizens review panels to the rescue?

Referendums raise questions about voters’ access to reliable information and considered arguments in this age of social media and polarization. In this episode Sævar Finnbogason talks to professor Maija Setälä from the University of Turku, about Citizens Review panels and citizens initiatives. Maija and her colleagues recently carried out an experiment with a citizen’s review panel in Finland, based on the Oregon CIR model.