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 ...

As it scrambled to pass a continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown at the end of 2024, the 118th Congress ended much as it began—with serious doubts as to whether America’s legislature ...

Joo-Cheong Tham receives funding from Australian Research Council, New South Wales Electoral Commission, Victorian Electoral Commission and the Melbourne Law School and is Director of the Electoral ...

We should be deliberate and not hasty in our speech. What makes us act hastily in any matter, without giving it careful consideration? As long as we are in the process of thinking and have not uttered ...

Choices can be context dependent. This empirical finding is usually invoked to suggest that preferences are constructive and susceptible to decision environment. Yet preference construction can be ...

This project brings together researchers in the LSE’s Departments of Government and of Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method to investigate the contribution that deliberation can make to social ...

Dear brothers and sisters, if you think about the negative results of many of our deeds, you would find that rashness and lack of deliberation are the main reasons behind losing what we want.