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| | Sample Chapter for Gutmann, A. and Thompson, D.: Why Deliberative Democracy? |
 | | Deliberative politics almost always has to be supplemented by other decision procedures--in the Oregon case by a recommendation of a commission and a vote by the legislature. | | | Some of the participants in the deliberative process recognized that this was unfair, but to express that recognition they had to appeal at least implicitly to a principle of justice that not everyone accepted. | | | Edmund Burke's "Speech to the electors of Bristol," which declared that "Parliament is a deliberative assembly," is famously a defense of a trustee conception of representation that today seems more aristocratic than democratic. |
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http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7869.html
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| | Experiments in Deliberative Democracy: |
| | Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996): 95-109. | | | In the past, the political Left in capitalist democracies vigorously defended the affirmative state against these kinds of arguments. | | | For most the time since its establishment in 1973, the U.S. Endangered Species Act has been the antithesis of deliberative democratic state action. |
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http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/~wright/deliberative.html
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| | Deliberative Discourse Theory |
| | A supermajority is an ideal requirement for amendments, since it ensures stability in the laws or resolutions passed by the discourse. | | | Catherine MacKinnon’s anti-pornography statutes passed in Canada after being struck down as Unconstitutional in the United States. | | | These could act as guidelines for participants in an online deliberative discourse. |
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/projects/deliberation/theory
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| | "Teledemocracy vs. Deliberative Democracy" - A Paper by Scott London |
| | See, for example, Cass R. Sunstein, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, (New York: The Free Press, 1993), and Joseph M. Bessette, "Deliberative Democracy: The Majority Principle in Republican Government" in How Democratic Is the Constitution? | | | The founding fathers believed that the only way the people could be sovereign while at the same time subject to the law was to organize government around a system of deliberative discussion.[6] As Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis observed, | | | "Teledemocracy vs. Deliberative Democracy" - A Paper by Scott London |
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http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/tele.html
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| | The Co-Intelligence Institute |
| | The revolution in decision-making that Citizen Deliberative Councils offer us is of comparable magnitude to the revolution in decision-making created centuries ago by the idea of majority vote. | | | The broad citizenry could, if it chose, ensure that its general interests were well and dependably articulated through the use of randomly selected citizen deliberative councils. | | | BY POPULAR DEMAND: REVITALIZING REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY THROUGH DELIBERATIVE ELECTIONS (University of California, 2000). |
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http://co-intelligence.org/CDCUsesAndPotency.html
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| | Deliberating About Deliberative Democracy - 2000 |
| | Deliberating about Deliberative Democracy was a conference co-sponsored by the Departments of Government, Philosophy and the School of Law at the University of Texas at Austin. | | | All meetings took place in the Courtroom of the University of Texas School of Law. | | | Additional support was given by the "Democracy in the Third Millennium" lecture series in the College of Liberal Arts, the Patterson-Banister Chair and the Centennial Chair in the College of Liberal Arts, the Hogg Research Fund and the Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas. |
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http://www.la.utexas.edu/conf2000
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| | City Limits: News for NYC's Nonprofit, Policy and Activist World |
| | Francesca Polletta is an associate professor of sociology at Columbia University and is the author of Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements (University of Chicago Press, 2002). | | | It was a spectacle to warm the hearts of democrats. | | | The "deliberative polls" designed by political scientist James Fishkin recruit a demographically representative sample of the population to discuss issues like abortion, immigration policy, and campaign financing, first in small groups and then with candidates for political office. |
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http://www.citylimits.org/content/articles/articleView.cfm?articlenumber=1056
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| | Deliberative Polling: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy |
| | Professor Robert C. Luskin of the Department of Government at the University of Texas in Austin is a Senior Fellow at the Center in Stanford. | | | Professor James Fishkin of Stanford University originated the concept of Deliberative Polling® in 1988. | | | The Center for Deliberative Democracy has received generous support from the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and from Stanford University. |
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http://cdd.stanford.edu/polls/docs/summary
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| | Deliberative Democracy |
| | Dr. Archon Fung at Harvard's Kennedy School is generating a typology of practices that populate the deliberative democracy landscape. | | | Proponents of deliberative democracy suggest that effective and legitimate governance cannot be limited to official circles alone, and that reasoned discussions by engaged citizens, and new mechanisms for public consultation, are essential to effective governance and policymaking. | | | Deliberative democracy-related initiatives respond to increasingly complex social, environmental and political problems, a growing array of public and private interests on any topic, frequent political gridlock, an often ill-informed electorate, and citizen perceptions that government is not effective, trustworthy or particularly accountable. |
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http://www.hewlett.org/Archives/ConflictResolution/ConsensusBuilding/deliberativeDemocracy.htm
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| | Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1994. | | | This is an important touchstone for renovating our Madisonian deliberative heritage, and a needed bulwark against the forms of plebiscitary democracy that are eroding it. | | | In this version of democracy, those mechanisms that compel decisions to conform directly to existing majority opinion are seen as more democratic than those that filter decisions through representation. |
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http://www.cpn.org/tools/dictionary/deliberate.html
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| | Troppo Armadillo: Agonising about deliberative democracy |
| | The education process is aimed partly at combatting the discovery, most famously identified with American political scientist Robert Converse, that most voters are abysmally ignorant about the issues and candidates about which they are expected to pass democratic judgment. | | | The novelty of democratic politics is not the overcoming of this us/them opposition — which is an impossibility — but the different way in which it is established. | | | She's a post-modernist, but I won't hold that against her. |
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http://troppoarmadillo.ubersportingpundit.com/archives/009202.html
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| | Getting Practical About Deliberative Democracy: Peter Levine |
| | Ever since the New Deal, Congress has frequently delegated its lawmaking power to executive or regulatory agencies and commissions. | | | The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (University of Chicago Press, 1994) (quoting John Adams). | | | Democracy is not well served by statutes that announce the good news (e.g., that the air shall be clean or the workplace risk-free), while leaving it to regulators to spell out the bad news (the costs and who must pay them). |
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http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/fall1999/deliberative_democracy.htm
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| | :: Deliberative Democracy Consortium :: |
| | It encourages enlarged perspectives, opinions, and understandings and can result in better decisions and policies. | | | Deliberative Democracy Consortium • 1050 17th Street NW, Suite 701 • Washington, DC 20036 | | | The Consortium seeks to support research activities and to advance practice at all levels of government, in North America and around the world. |
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http://www.deliberative-democracy.net
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| | Deliberative Democracy and Minorities |
| | This file was last modified: Friday, August 12, 2005 10:19AM | | | Like other minorities, ethno-cultural groups demand a recognition of their status as equal citizens, and effective representation in the deliberative and decision-making institutions and mechanisms of the state, notably national Parliaments. | | | The deliberative model conceives of democracy as a free association of equal citizens who engage in a rational discussion on political issues, presenting options and seeking a consensus on what is to be done. |
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http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol14/No3/art4.html
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| | Deliberative democracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Dozens of deliberative opinion polls have been conducted across the United States since his book was published. | | | The Green Party of the United States refers to its particular proposals for grassroots democracy and electoral reform by this name. | | | Deliberative democracy, also sometimes called discursive democracy, is a term used by political theorists, e.g., Jon Elster or Jürgen Habermas, to refer to any system of political decisions based on some tradeoff of consensus decision making and representative democracy. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deliberative_democracy
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| | Deliberative Democracy in America by Ethan J. Leib |
| | Isn’t the use of coercion offensive to liberal republicans? | | | I make my assumptions clear: where political autonomy is measured by the degree to which people can be said to be the authors of their own laws, deliberation by ordinary citizens helps the republican project of self-authorship. | | | Shouldn’t citizens have access to the goings-on of all deliberative assemblies and understand how the members of the jury arrive at their decisions? |
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http://www.psupress.org/Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteLeib.html
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| | Learn more about Direct democracy in the online encyclopedia. |
| | This was first experimented with in the ancient Athenian Democracy, which was governed for two centuries by a council of randomly selected representatives and a general assembly of all citizens. | | | Modern mass-suffrage democracies generally rely on representatives elected by citizens. | | | Such movements advocate more frequent public votes and referendums on issues, and less of the so-called "rule by politician." Collectively, these movements are referred to as advocating grassroots democracy or consensus democracy, to differentiate it from a simple direct-democracy model. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/d/di/direct_democracy.html
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| | James Fishkin - Berkman Center for Internet & Society |
| | Professor Fishkin received his BA from Yale in 1970 and holds two Ph.D.'s, one in Political Science from Yale and one in philosophy from the University of Cambridge, England. | | | The results of the world's first Deliberative Poll were broadcast on May 8, 1994, and the process has been conducted nationally in Britain five times including a 1997 effort for the British General Election. | | | He developed the proposal in his book, Democracy and Deliberation: New Directions for Democratic Reform (Yale University Press, 1991). |
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http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/fishkin.html
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| | Pedagogic practice and deliberative democracy |
| | Contributions to a discourse theory of law and democracy. | | | The superficial explanation is that a government resting upon popular suffrage cannot be successful unless those who elect and who obey their governors are educated. | | | A project to assess democratic competence in schools |
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http://www.leeds.ac.uk/educol/documents/00002272.htm
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| | :: Deliberative Democracy Consortium :: |
| | Increase the credibility and visibility of the deliberative democracy movement in the United States and around the world | | | The mission of the Consortium is to bring together practitioners and researchers to support and foster the nascent, broad-based movement to promote and institutionalize deliberative democracy at all levels of governance in the United States and around the world. | | | Deliberative Democracy Consortium • 1050 17th Street NW, Suite 701 • Washington, DC 20036 |
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http://www.deliberative-democracy.net/about
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| | The Center for Deliberative Democracy |
| | The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®. | | | Deliberative Polling®: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy An executive summary of Deliberative Polling® to date, including the results of polls conducted in England, Australia, Denmark and the United States. | | | Deliberative Polling®, developed by Professor James S. Fishkin, is a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues. |
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http://cdd.stanford.edu
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| | Oxford Scholarship Online: Deliberative Democracy and Beyond |
| | Chapter 4 Insurgent Democracy: Civil Society and State | | | Keywords: constitutionalism, deliberation, deliberative democracy, democratic theory, democratization, discursive democracy, legitimacy | | | He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in questioning established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon, and opportunities for, democratization. |
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http://www.oxfordscholarship.com/oso/public/content/politicalscience/019925043X/toc.html
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| | Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands : Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania : The ... |
| | Wolfensberger’s publications include Democracy and the Internet, which he co-edited; Congress and the People: Deliberative Democracy on Trial; and essays he contributed to the Encyclopedia of the United States Congress. | | | His research interests include congressional elections, congressional careers, and public attitudes toward Congress but more recently he has been conducting experimental analyses of the situations in which people comply with unfavorable authoritative decisions. | | | His book Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes toward American Political Institutions (written with Elizabeth Theiss-Morse) won the APSA’s Fenno Prize for the best book on Congress, and their Stealth Democracy: Americans’ Beliefs about How Government Should Work was published in 2002 by Cambridge University Press. |
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http://www.sunnylands.org/Civics/Experts/Commission.asp?id=Legislative
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| | Participatory Deliberative Democracy |
| | She also describes 'associative democracy," in which "voluntary self-governing bodies act as partnerships between the recipients and providers of services" and describes "neighbourhood committees in Bradford, Tower Hamlets and Somerset and community groups in Middlesborough, comprising elected residents and representatives of voluntary groups, which have the right to be consulted. | | | Others of his proposals - deliberative opinion polls, study groups, citizens' panels, advisory, focus and community planning groups, open council meetings, co-options to councils from voluntary bodies and so on - seem more suited to attempts to guarantee democratic practice once new institutions are agreed." | | | There are also focus groups, as in Hammersmith and Fulham, on social services; advisory fora, as in Hampshire, on waste management; and, elsewhere in England, panels which bridge gaps between government and the elderly or young people. |
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http://www.co-intelligence.org/CIPol_ParticDelibDemoc.html
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| | The Deliberative Democracy Project |
| | The Deliberative Democracy Project has helped citizens' groups, local and state governments, professional organizations and the media to engage citizens in the deliberative process of making decisions. | | | Eugene, Oregon: A partnership between citizens and the media, facilitated by the Deliberative Democracy project, created a Citizens' Agenda for the 1994 general election. | | | Deliberative Democracy is founded on our belief that citizens care enough and are smart enough to participate meaningfully in the deliberative process of making public policy. |
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http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~ddp
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| | Deliberative Democracy - The MIT Press |
| | The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. | | | Areas of inquiry include the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the significance of voting and majority rule in deliberative arrangements. | | | This remarkably fruitful concept has spawned investigations along a number of lines. |
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http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item?tid=6483&ttype=2
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| | Full Circle Online Interaction Blog: SXSW: Deliberative Democracy Panel |
| | We say in the last election it was about something… missed.. | | | If the poor town is heavily mobilized, they stand to lose in a deliberative process. | | | Jock Gill: We ran a 4000 deliberative process for Al Gore in 1994, the open meeting. |
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http://fullcirc.com/weblog/2005/03/sxsw-deliberative-democracy-panel_15.htm
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| | Invitational Seminar |
| | The concept of Deliberative Democracy has emerged as a major contribution to democratic theory. | | | Its advocates note that "open and informed" conversations on the part of the citizenry are essential to the meaning of a liberal democracy. | | | And online efforts explicitly concerned with deliberative democracy are focusing on specific issues such as foreign policy in an age of terrorism. |
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http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/style/Seminar.html
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| | International Online Deliberative Democracy |
| | ODDC is the online working group of the Deliberative Democracy Consortium and this event is the result of our own interest hearing more about online projects from other parts of the world, in a relatively informal setting. | | | We run deliberative projects for public, priovate and voluntary sectors, mainly but not exclusively around environmental and sustainable development issues. | | | Tell us about an interesting online deliberative democracy project from that you have been involved in. |
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http://discuss.politalk.com/iodd
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