India faces extensive challenges of rapid urbanization and deficits in human well-being environmental sustainability. Democratic governance is expected to strengthen public policies efforts towards This article presents a study Pune, India, which aimed at exploring perceptions about participation urban the potential high-quality deliberation meet deficits. The research reveals disaffection with...

A b s t r a c t Three prominent ‘camps’ have emerged within Internet democracy rhetoric and practice, each drawing upon different models of democracy: communitarian, liberal individualist and deliberative. Much interest has been shown in the former two camps by researchers and policy makers. This paper turns to an examination of the possible realization of the third camp’s vision – that the pub...

Abstract Deliberative democracy started out as an ideal for mass democracy. Lately, however, its large-scale ambitions have mostly been shelved. This article revivifies the of deliberative by offering a clear mechanism which everyone in community can be included same conversation. The trick is to make use people’s overlapping social communicative networks through informal exchanges already occu...

What is the explanatory potential of deliberation in a political context of collective decisionmaking? This paper posits actors‟ ability to comply with the force of the better argument through explication of the relevant deliberative warrants and through mechanisms for the activation of institutional status functions. It establishes a conceptual scheme for analysing successful processes of deli...

Interest in deliberative theories of democracy has grown tremendously among political theorists over the last twenty years. Many scholars in political behavior, however, are skeptical that it is a practically viable theory, even on its own terms. They argue (inter alia) that most people dislike politics, and that deliberative initiatives would amount to a paternalistic imposition. Using two lar...

Theorists argue that deliberation promotes enlightenment and consensus, but scholars do not know how deliberation affects policy opinions. Using the deliberative democracy and public opinion literatures as a guide, I develop a theory of opinion updating where citizens who deliberate revise their prior beliefs, particularly when they encounter consensual messages. A key aspect of this model is t...