Deliberation and Non-Deliberative Communication

How deliberation makes better citizens: The Danish Deliberative

This article presents results from a Danish national Deliberative Poll on the single European currency. A representative sample of 364 Danish citizens assembled to deliberate on Denmark’s participation in the single currency. As a quasi-experiment, the Deliberative Poll is an example of deliberative democracy. Four research questions regarding these deliberative processes are analyzed: openness...

Disrupting deliberation: The impact of political protest on deliberative systems

Bringing values and deliberation to science communication.

Decisions always involve both facts and values, whereas most science communication focuses only on facts. If science communication is intended to inform decisions, it must be competent with regard to both facts and values. Public participation inevitably involves both facts and values. Research on public participation suggests that linking scientific analysis to public deliberation in an iterat...

Towards Automating the Measurement of Deliberative Communication

The first step towards automating the measurement of deliberative communication is to analyze the content of a debate. In this paper we develop a novel visual method that allows to determine content-based episodes within discourses. Our framework reveals interesting subsequences of discourses that help to automate the measurement of deliberative communication.

Multidimensionality and Non-Deductiveness in Deliberative Argumentation