Practical experiments with deliberative democracy, instituted with random samples of the public, have had success in many countries. But this approach has never before been tried in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reflecting on the first two applications in Uganda, we apply the same criteria for success commonly used for such projects in the most advanced countries. Can this approach work successfully with...

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Inviting the public to be part of the decision making process in environmental management has been a major objective in European and American environmental policy arenas. As one prominent example, the US-National Academy of Sciences encourages environmental protection agencies to foster citizen participation and public involvement for making environmental policy making and risk management more ...

PURPOSE AND METHODS This paper examines the social cognitive processes that regulate people's eating behavior. Specifically, we examine how eating behavior can be regulated by reflective, deliberative processes as well as automatic and habitual processes. Moreover, we consider how these processes operate when people are not only initiating a change in behavior but also maintaining the behavior ...

Abstract Deliberative minipublics—participatory processes combining civic lottery with structured deliberation—are increasingly presented as a solution to address series of problems. Whereas political theory has been prolific in conceiving their contributions, it remains unclear how the people organizing minipublics practice view purposes, and these conceptions align theory. This paper conducts...

Abstract A ‘deliberative wave’, with increasing uses of deliberative citizen forums, is sweeping the globe. Whereas forum enthusiasts claim that they represent appropriate tools to reconnect citizens politics and demand a stronger empowerment critics argue will reduce rather than increase democratic legitimacy. This letter sheds new light on roles forums in systems, particular eye disaffected c...