Making disability public in deliberative democracy

Making Deliberative Democracy Practical: Public Consultation and Dispute Resolution

Deliberative democracy is a form of alternative dispute resolution. Consulting the public in a thoughtful and representative way can lead to consequential public policy outcomes that might otherwise have been difficult to achieve. However, some recent literature appears to treat deliberative democracy and alternative dispute resolution as rivals.! While there are differences in emphasis and in ...

Deliberative Democracy and Public Sphere Typology

Public Sphere The third kind of public sphere, named by Habermas as the “abstract public sphere”, is produced by media, which connects singular and globally spread readers, listeners and spectators (BFN, 1996: 308). In the Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere Habermas conceives the small press as an important institution for the conveyance of ideas and the establishment of the rationa...

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy

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...

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...