Social Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A Reconciliation

Rational Choice, Deliberative Democracy, And Preference Transformation

Within democratic theory, rational choice theories have for some time been challenged by approaches of ‘deliberative democracy’. I argue that the central analytical contrast between these theories consists in their differing focus on preferences: while rational choice takes them to be stable for the time frame in question and exogenous to the decision process to be analysed, deliberative theory...

Game Theory, Information, and Deliberative Democracy

We contend that, with a suitably broad notion of rationality and a diverse set of motivations, the game-theoretic tradition is particularly well suited for generating insights about effects of deliberative institutions and that progress in the development of deliberative democratic theory hinges on making proper sense of the relationship between game-theoretic and normative theoretic approaches...

Rhetoric and Deliberative Democracy

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 and Education