Motivation and inhibition in deliberation
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People main motivation to deliberate is based on the will to achieve some goal through group consent and actions, or to change the way the group behaves, according to the participent values and righteous mind.
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Enhancers and inhibitors of the motivation to participate
Fight over Limited resources
When people strugle to gain access to limited resouces, naturly, their motivation will grow. And also, as the amount of limited resources is grrater, the motivation will become greater. This is the reason, Churchill suggested that the number of seats in parliament will be smaller then the number of PMs. Jank and Kiel found out that people tend to write longer massages and gravitate toward decision makers, when politicians are participating an online discussion[1].
But one have to take care not to bring the struggle for resources to an extreme point. Resources to, if the need for these limited resources is perceived as crucial to one won survival, the fight for the limited resources may become a fight and skirmishes may arise, making the deliberation void.
ROI
See Robert Dahal
Maslow's Pyramid of needs
For every need in Maslow's pyramid of needs, there is an influance in motivation to deliberate.
In the physiological needs, people will use deliberation to direct more basic resources toward themselves (like money).
In Safety needs, people will use deliberation to understand complex phenoemnon and to make the public more orderd and safe. Here curiosity and terror managment will play signficant role.
In love and honor needs, people will try to achieve commun undestanding, respect and friendship.
In Honor needs, people will try to gain more honor from others, by beeing more informed or more power over decision making.
In Self-Fulfilment, people will use their special skills in knowledge contribute to the group.
The Ego
The Ego in deliberation, is the need to control. When one have strong desires to control, without self-control or the understanding that in order to conrol, you first have to listen and synthesis other views, she will avoid listtening to others, by thinking of them as bad or as stupid.
In this respect, when one is in competition with others for control, he will try to show all their mistakes, and will strength her ideas. This may be the cause of the failuer of Eli Zeria, the Chif intelegence branch in the IDF to see the comming war with Egypt in October 1973[2].
References
- ↑ Janssen, D., & Kies, R. (2004). Online Forums and Deliberative Democracy : Hypotheses , Variables and Methodologies. In Empirical Approaches to Deliberative Politics”, European University Institute, Florence, 22-23 May 2004 (pp. 1–30). Florence.
- ↑ Zvi Zamir, In open eyes, 2011, Zmora-Bitan ("בעיניים פקוחות: ראש המוסד מתריע: האם ישראל מקשיבה?", בהוצאת כנרת זמורה-ביתן דביר.)