A large body of work shows that reasoning motivated by partisan cues and prior attitudes leads to unreflective decisions and disparities in empirical beliefs across groups. Surprisingly little ...

Knowledge & Practice Manager, Nicole Armos, shares her reflections on deliberative models for city planning and knowledge exchange with a growing field. 2024 is quickly picking up its pace at the ...

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 ...

Across the world, governments and organizations are increasingly involving community members in shaping decisions that will affect their lives. Engaging the public in decision-making can lead to more ...

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 ...

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 ...

I am taking this opportunity to weigh in on the exchange between Arthur Lupia (and part 2), Jim Fishkin (and part 2), and others concerned with the Tomorrow's Europe Deliberative Poll. I come neither ...

Agencies often cite the privilege when denying records requests, but RCFP's Gunita Singh offers journalists tips to avoid rejection. This is Part 2 of a two-part series on FOIA’s deliberative process ...

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 ...

Deliberative democracy as a form of citizen engagement and social media as a means to achieving greater citizen engagement have both received considerable attention in recent years; however, little ...