Mongolia’s First National Deliberative Poll on Constitutional Amendments

Participants of the Mongolian Deliberation on Constitutional Amendments (669 in total). Credit: Parliament Secretariat of Mongolia

Over the weekend of April 29-30, 2017 citizens of Mongolia gathered in Ulaanbaatar at the Government Palace to deliberate on six possible constitutional amendments. This Deliberative Poll is the first following a law recently passed in Mongolia requiring the use of Deliberative Polling®.

Results

• Summary Results from the National Deliberative Poll in Mongolia on Constitutional Reform
• Main Findings of the First Nationwide Deliberative Polling on Constitutional Amendment of Mongolia

Procedures

• Briefing Materials
• Questionnaire

Press

• Letter from the Chairman, Great Hural (Parliment), Mongolia 2/2020
  Deliberative Poll played key role in amendments to Mongolia’s constitution
• Deliberative Polling for Constitutional Change in Mongolia: An Unprecedented Experiment ConstitutionNet 9/2017 PDF
  Professor Fishkin and MP Zandanshatar conclude that the experience attests to the unique value of Deliberative Polling as a modality of public participation in constitutional reform processes.
• Collaboration at Stanford leads to Mongolian parliament passing law on public opinion polling Stanford Report 5/2017 PDF A meeting between Stanford communications Professor James Fishkin and Gombojav Zandanshatar, a member of Mongolia’s parliament, inspired a new law that requires an in-depth method of public opinion polling to take place before an amendment to Mongolia’s constitution can be enacted.
• Deliberative Polling and the Future of Mongolia’s Constitution The Asia Foundation 5/2017 PDF
  The two-day event stimulated discussion and gathered citizen input on critical issues ranging from the powers of the president and ensuring the independence of the civil society, to the pressures of urbanization and the frequency of elections
• Consultative meeting on constitutional amendments held UB Post 5/2017 PDF
  Representatives from political parties, foreign diplomatic missions, resident representatives of international organizations working in Mongolia, 25 international observers, and nearly 30 domestic observers sat in on the consultative meeting.

Scholarly Article

• Piloting Elements of a Deliberative System by James S. Fishkin and Alice Siu PDF

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