When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation
James S. Fishkin
Language: English
Pages: 256
ISBN: 0199604436
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. In this book, James Fishkin combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks back to ancient Athens can be used to revive our modern democracies. When the People Speak outlines deliberative democracy projects conducted by the author with various collaborators in the US, China, Britain, Denmark, Australia, Italy, Bulgaria, Northern Ireland, and in the entire European Union. These projects have resulted in the massive expansion of wind power in Texas, the building of sewage treatment plants in China, and greater mutual understanding between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland.
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The voters have similar policy preferences and similar political preferences. Hence it is arguable that it would not make any difference to the outcomes 51 When the People Speak of those elections if we somehow got the nonvoters to vote.29 While the nonvoters are even less well informed than the voters, their policy and political preferences, to the extent that they have them, tend to echo or reflect much the same views as those of voters. On this basis, Wolfinger and Rosenstone argued in a.
What effects does it have on participants or on the broader public dialogue? Most importantly, can it be situated in the policy process or the public dialogue in such a way that it has some effect on policy? Fourth, under what social and political conditions can any of this be accomplished? Even though we have only limited experience with the revival of deliberative democracy among ordinary citizens in the modern era (a revival of a process that once was influential going as far back as ancient.
Hypothesis—the community whose interests they value is enlarged and the degree to which they value that community’s interests is increased. As shorthand, we can refer to either one as an increase in “public spiritedness.” As for political participation, once citizens are actively engaged in the discussion of politics or policy, particularly if it is in a context where they feel their voice matters, they may wish to continue engagement. And some of the other factors potentially affected by.
(increased support for the “yes” side) which got extensive television coverage and was front-page news in many of the national papers. We do not have systematic data to demonstrate media effects but the “surge” for “yes” in the closing days of the campaign following the surge for “yes” in the event suggests an impact.69 Clearly, the effects of media coverage on the broader population are an element for further study when resources permit. Changes in policy How can deliberation by a microcosm of.
E. Equal consideration: The extent to which arguments offered by all participants are considered on the merits regardless of which participants offer them The first three of these are addressed by the institutional design of the DP. The advisory group sanctions the information for balance and accuracy, the substantive balance is realized in the small group discussions with trained moderators and with the balance of the expert panels. The diversity of the participants should be guaranteed by random.