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Deliberative democracy or discursive democracy is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision-making. Deliberative democracy seeks quality over quantity by limiting decision-makers to a smaller but more representative sample of the population that is given the time and resources to focus on one issue.
A deliberative referendum is a referendum that increases public deliberation through purposeful institutional design. [ 1 ] :557 The term "deliberative referendum" stems from deliberative democracy , [ 2 ] :509 which emphasises that "the legitimacy of decisions can be increased if...decisions are preceded by authentic deliberation."
That is why a crowd can also judge many things better than any single individual. (Politics III, 15, 1286a27–33; trans. Reeve 1998: 94) These passages seem to suggest that group deliberation may allow for better results than can be produced by any one individual because it allows for the pooling of information, arguments, insights, and ...
In "deliberative democracy", the aim is for both elected officials and the general public to use deliberation rather than power-struggle as the basis for their vote. Individual deliberation is also a description of day-to-day rational decision-making, and as such is an epistemic virtue .
Deliberative democracy aims to harness the benefits of deliberation to produce better understanding and resolution of important issues. [ 97 ] [ 98 ] Assemblies are intended to stimulate deliberation, in which the participants can less easily be captured by special interest.
Deliberative assemblies – bodies that use parliamentary procedure to arrive at decisions – use several methods of voting on motions (formal proposal by members of a deliberative assembly that the assembly take certain action). The regular methods of voting in such bodies are a voice vote, a rising vote, and a show of hands.
This is one of many arguments made for deliberative democracy, and advocated by some in the US, e.g. Ralph Nader. Detractors of this view of civic life note that the complexity of widespread public consultation and letting the public vote down necessary but unpopular expenditures is contrary to the spirit of a representative democracy , and is ...
In 2019, the Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Helena Group launched America in One Room, a deliberative poll of a representative sample of 526 Americans on various issues. [9] Polling results found that in general voters seemed to move towards the center after their experience, with an effect lasting at least one year after the in-person ...