Informal Networked Deliberation: How Mass Deliberative Democracy Really Works

How Microfinance Really Works

How problem-solving really works

Over the years, many researchers have proposed theoretical models of problem-solving. These models work a problem in a sequential and rational manner. Through our professional experience and an action research study, we discovered fundamental differences between what these models describe and what actually happens when problems are solved in a real-world setting. Assisting with a process improv...

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...

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy

How Pair Programming Really Works Programming

50 I E E E S O F T W A R E Pu b l i s h e d b y t h e I E E E C om p u t e r S o c i e t y 0 74 0 74 5 9 / 1 0 / $ 2 6 . 0 0 © 2 0 1 0 I E E E As a dictionary definition, I’d say that pair programming is a technique in which two people sit down, literally side by side, and write a program at the same computer. When Kent Beck originally coined the term, he described two programmers working at di...