For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

The argument scholars Thomas Hollihan and Kevin Baaske explain in “Arguments and Arguing” that to engage in deliberative democracy, citizens must display the willingness, knowledge, civility, and ...

Two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a conversation. This “conversation” entailed a series of heated questions and provocative moves by Baier, ...

Ari explores forms of deliberative democracy around the world that empower citizens. Ari explores the power of deliberative democracy, where citizens are actively involved in decision-making processes ...

President Trump has shown a disregard for "deliberative democracy," preferring one-man rule over debate and discussion. Trump has bypassed Congress with executive orders, restructuring government ...

Stanford professor James Fishkin has been making the case for deliberative democracy since I was an undergraduate in Palo Alto close to 20 years ago. Over decades of work on deliberative polling and ...

Californians vote on many ballot measures, but rarely participate in significant public discussions about the measures’ contents and impacts. This isn’t just about apathy. Rather, it’s an example of ...

The spread of substate and transnational forms of terrorism that target ordinary civilians for mass murder tears at the social and political consensus in our country and across the world. The aim is ...

The slow, arduous labour of democracy rarely announces itself with the fanfare of constitutional moments. It proceeds instead through committee rooms, ward meetings, half-attended assemblies, the ...