For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...
The benefits and likely outcomes of a slow-moving, expert-led commission are profoundly uncertain. But a deliberative ...
Two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a conversation. This “conversation” entailed a series of heated questions and provocative moves by Baier, ...
The argument scholars Thomas Hollihan and Kevin Baaske explain in “Arguments and Arguing” that to engage in deliberative democracy, citizens must display the willingness, knowledge, civility, and ...
Nicole Curato receives funding from the Australian Research Council. She is currently a Discovery Early Career Research Award Fellow ((DE150101866), Lucy J Parry is affiliated with Participedia, a ...
This is the first column in “Democracy Do-Over,” a weekly series exploring and making the case for improvements in how we elect public servants and ensure effective representation by all levels of ...
How ought democracy to be understood? These days this is certainly a weighty and urgent question because there is considerable empirical evidence of deep-seated dissatisfaction within the liberal ...
The Indian Journal of Political Science, Vol. 72, No. 1 (Jan - March, 2011), pp. 67-86 (20 pages) The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate some of the shortcomings and pit falls of traditional ...
Voices filled the gymnasium at Maywood Elementary and echoed through the day as dozens of Burnaby residents talked through solutions to the region’s housing crisis. Each table of randomly selected ...
With the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference on the horizon this November, experts from Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy (CDD) are working on a project to help delegates better ...
Deliberative Opinion Polls® create a unique "poll with a human face" that is unlike traditional surveys. The results reveal the conclusions the public would reach if people had the chance to become ...
This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix democracy. RADICAL change is needed to overcome the crisis in liberal democracy. The needs range from the constitution to the machinery ...
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