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Deliberative democracy is a form of democracy in which citzenry citizenry deliberation is central to decision-making. It put a high value on envolving involving larger parts of the population in the decision -making of the governing bodies. citizen citizens should have an equal voice and equal influence in the shaping of public solutions. It manifests that when making a public decisions, every option should be taken into account, even if it’s owners do not have much education in the subject. The reason for that, is that every citizen has her own interests in the public decision, and they may be influenced by the choices the decision body will make.

However, letting every citizen participate in the discussion and influence the option taken by the public, results in tedious and endless meetings. Many citizens want to shape the solution, while many others want to propose their own unique solutions or criticize the ideas brought to the table. Equal deliberation may be a very cumbersome process that takes huge amounts of energy and time. If all the residents of a small town would have the same influence on the solutions proposed, the deliberation may take years. As the body of decision -makers grows, so do the time and energy it takes to make an equal decision. Because of its tediousness , many citizens prefer not to participate in it, therefore making equal deliberation null.

So, if we want to keep the ideals of deliberation of real equality, while making the process efficient and suited for the participating of thousands and millions, we have to learn how deliberation works. What are her elements and how do they interact with each other? If we will be able to understand the elements we will be able to suggest more efficient ways to conduct equal public deliberation, and even invent a new application that may help larger groups of citizens engage in the public decisions.

In this website , we will suggest a theory that will explain the elements of deliberation and their interactions. We will then investigate the common practices of deliberation and analyze them according to the theory. Lastly, we will suggest a future process for deliberative democracy and develop apps for deliberative democracy. The current app we are working on is [http://www.delib.org tech delib.orgtech]. The code for delib can be found [https://github.com/delib-orgtalyaron/delib-fron2 here].