Psychological phenomena have long been a focus of research on democratic deliberation, particularly concerning policy knowledge and attitudes other issues addressed in conventional scholarship political psychology. Yet recent years, the subject matter psychological deliberation has expanded to include wider array issues, ranging from lay conceptualizations not foregrounded traditional psycholog...

What role can deliberative democracy mechanisms perform in relation to policy design? This article reports findings from an experiment which was conducted answer that question. The brought together a random sample of the public who debated questions online and face-to-face. Three key emerged. First, are different more typical participatory design tools because they offer something dynamic than ...

There is now a growing consensus among democratic theorists that we should incorporate both “democratic deliberation” and “aggregative voting” into our processes. But how the two mechanisms of deliberation voting interact? In this article, introduce new axiom, which call “Nonnegative Response toward Successful Deliberation” (NNRD). The basic idea if some individuals change their preferences oth...

Cooperation in multi-agent systems essentially hinges on appropriate communication. This paper shows how to model communication in teamwork within TEAMLOG, the first multi-modal framework wholly capturing a methodology for working together. Taking off from the dialogue theory ofWalton and Krabbe, the paper focuses on deliberation, the main type of dialogue during team planning. We provide a fou...