Deliberative Democracy Institute
Using Technology and Methodologies to Promote Deliberative Democracy
Who ever tried to conduct real life deliberation, knows it is a messy bussines. People want to talk in the same time, many options are raised and the topics fly in an abstract way. I find that even highly experienced Continue Reading …
Trust is one of the elements that construct deliberation. When people deliberate they have to trust each other motives in order to work together toward a common goal (Mutz, 2002). Therefore establishing trust between participants is an important element in Continue Reading …
Following the previous post which raised the question, whether conservatives tend less to come to deliberative events, Marina Lindell, from Abo academy Finland, sent me a paper of her collogues at Abo academy, that further looked at the data, and Continue Reading …
When Marina Lindel invited to a deliberation participents with pro and anti-immigration attitudes, she found out that anti-immigrationsits tended come less to the experiment (Lindell, 2014, p. 7). Jost et al, had found that conservatives (in Lindell’s experiment, they are Continue Reading …
When talking about wisdom of the multitude, we think on ways that enable our collective ideas to aggregate and present the right answers. A well-known method to acquire the wisdom of the crowds was publicized by Surowiecki in The Wisdom Continue Reading …