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

Support for early voting and voter ID grew after Pennsylvanians heard from experts and talked out their differences in poll.

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

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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

Democracy requires deliberation. As James Fishkin notes in his 2020 book “Democracy When the People Are Thinking,” voting without adequate information, debate and the opportunity of reflective ...

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.

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.