Deliberative democracy and the internet: Could online deliberative democracy replace classical democracy

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy

Deliberative Democracy and Education

Pharmacopolitics and deliberative democracy.

Setting priorities in healthcare has become a highly politicised activity. Traditionally it has been undertaken by government and the health professions but there is an increasing imperative to involve the public. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) has established a Citizens' Council as an attempt to capture the informed views of the public in shaping the Institute...

Deliberative Democracy, Chicago Style

1. The Strange Appearance of Deliberative Democracy Chicago's neighborhoods might strike both casual observers and the initiated as rather infertile ground for the seeds of deliberative democracy to take root and bear fruit. The city's tradition of machine politics—a reward system that delivers spoils in exchange for obedience—hardly seems conducive to a politics that relies upon fairness and r...

From e-Government to Online Deliberative Democracy

The possibilities for promoting an expanded conception of democratic political participation through information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been widely observed. Potential synergies between ICT developments and democratic renewal arise from the two-way, interactive nature of new digital media, and their technical enhancement of citizen capacities to access, produce, distribute,...