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 ...

Habermas was unshakeable in his conviction that people have minds of their own and are free to hope for a better future.

Deliberative democracy is now officially entangled in state bureaucracy. And that’s good news. Last year, all 247,000 of California’s state government workers gained access to a new digital democracy ...

Two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a conversation. This “conversation” entailed a series of heated questions and provocative moves by Baier, ...

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 processes ...

In September 2019, 523 Americans traveled to Dallas, Texas, for an experiment called “America in One Room.” The gathering was designed to test a theory: Could representative citizens deliberate ...

“Deliberative polling” was developed in the 1990s. A three-day event will see if it can help Pennsylvania voters come together on common concerns. Gov. Josh Shapiro addresses an audience at the ...

Australia has a window of opportunity in the current socio-political context to deepen its democratic commitments. If it ...

Habermas gave us concepts of the public sphere, communicative action, and deliberative democracy, which are now embedded in ...

With the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference on the horizon this November, experts from Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy (CDD) are working on a project to help delegates better ...

This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix democracy. RADICAL change is needed to overcome the crisis in liberal democracy. The needs range from the constitution to the machinery ...

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