Deliberative Democracy

Theories of Knowledge, Psycology, Deliberation and Goverment

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Why Deliberation?

The last several decades have seen growing agreement among political theorists and empirical political scientists that the legitimacy of a democracy depends in part on the quality of deliberation that informs citizens and their representatives.

Deliberation is a method of thinking on problems together, and finding solutions that will be optimal for the participents in the process. Deliberation is a very old practice, used by groups of governing bodies, to settle contradicting needs and desires, and to achive a peaceful way to advance togther.

Today, in the era of mass participation, experts of deliberation face the chalenge of large group deliberation. A chalange which will anable better participation of the public in it's democracy.

Goals of this wiki

This wiki is designed to be the base for a coherent paradigm for deliberative Democracy. It will be home for different asspects of deliberative society, ranging from epistemology, individual psychology, education, individual growth, and to the understanding of groups dynamics, deliberation, Goverment and international relationships.

It will be based on scientific research and epistemology.

A little bit more about deliberation

Humans tend to join into coalitions, and coordinate among themselves. Every gathering of people, is also a gathering of different wishes and needs, and some time these needs and wishes are in contradiction to one another. There are many ways to overcome these contradiction. wise leadership, is a leadership that knows how to bring all these wills into coordinate operation. But as the group grows, and the sorunding becoming more demanding, the coordination of the group become more and more difficult. Through history, many methods were developed, to drives group. Some times the main power that held groups together, was share power of the leadership, some times it was a shared narratives or ethos. But as democracy grow, the need for less power and more legitimate solutions was felt. In this area of time, when the internet ripe apart "narratives" and people are creating large groups, without the elites presiding over the adhesion making process, a true and effective for gathering the contradicting wills to a cooperative movement which will enables nations and states, find solution that will benefits the multitude. Deliberation is one of these methods, based on mutual understanding and decision making, through discussions with multitude of participants.