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'''Sum:'''
When properly conducted, then, democratic politics involves public deliberation focused on the ''common good,'' requires some form of manifest ''equality among citizens'',and shapes ''the identity and interests of citizens'' in ways that contribute to the formation of a ''public conception of common good''.
===Five defentions of Deliberative process===
# '''A Continuous system for governing the group''': A deliberative democracy is an ongoing and independent association, whose members expect it to continue into the indefinite future.
# '''To their deliberation there are results''': The members of the association share (and it is common knowledge that they share) the view that the appropriate terms of association provide a framework for or are the results of their deliberation. They share, that is, a commitment to coordinating their activities within institutions that make deliberation possible and according to norms that they arrive at through their deliberation. For them, free deliberation among equals is the basis of legitimacy.
# '''Plurality of minds''': A deliberative democracy is a pluralistic association. The members have diverse preferences, convictions and ideals concerning the conduct of their own lives. While sharing a commitment to the deliberative resolution of problems of collective choice (D2), they also have divergent aims, and do not think that some particular set of preferences, convictions or ideals is mandatory.
# '''Connection between disicions and results as source of legitmecy''': Because the members of a democratic association regard deliberative procedures as the source of legitimacy, it is important to them that the terms of their association not merely be the results of their deliberation, but also be manifest to them as such. They prefer institutions in which the connections between deliberation and outcomes are evident to ones in which the connections are less clear.
# '''Every body is capble of deliberating''': The members recognize one another as having deliberative capacities, i.e. the capacities required for entering into a public exchange of reasons and for acting on the result of such public reasoning.
==Democratic assessment of collaborative planning processes==