Deliberation is a process of thoughtfully weighing options before making a decision.

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<ref>Parkinson, J., & Mansbridge, J. (Eds.). (2012). Deliberative Systems: Deliberative Democracy at the Large Scale (p. 204). Cambridge University Press. p. 1</ref>. By improving deliberation process we improve democracy, and let more players participate in an efficient and more representing political decision making.