Attendees met in groups of about a dozen people to discuss a slate of policies pertaining to a given topic (or a cluster of ...

Champions of the almost entirely party-line vote in the U.S. Senate to erase US$1.1 billion in already approved funds for the ...

This model of deliberative democracy reveals epistemological and political dichotomies characterizing our political culture, between those who make contestable and testable claims through public ...

Hummel is executive director of the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation. In today's world, democratic values face challenges from rising polarization and declining trust in institutions.

In deliberative democracy, decisions are made by a randomly-selected sample of individuals from the population, as opposed to policymakers and officials. Due to its random nature, ...

This report argues that public options for AI, along with utility-style regulation, will strengthen national security by ...

Ari explores forms of deliberative democracy around the world that empower citizens. Ari explores the power of deliberative democracy, where citizens are actively involved in decision-making ...

Four forums for deliberative democracy. In my previous story, I wrote about citizens assemblies, which function similar to juries, but deal with making policy rather than civil or criminal law.

America in One Room is a nonpartisan initiative developed by Helena and Stanford University’s Deliberative Democracy Lab.They employ “deliberative polling” techniques “to engage voters in civil ...

The Deliberative Democracy Lab’s Fishkin acknowledged the agenda was ambitious, though a comparably broad program had worked well for a prior event held in New York City. “It’s a tradeoff.