Abstract How can Community Conversations be used to give communities a voice in policy decisions? This paper is response the challenge of engaging citizens inclusive, meaningful dialogue and deliberation on potentially sensitive topics that affect their lives create bridge between individual, community perspectives. dual aim therefore individuals stronger key decisions affecting them provide st...

In its “deliberative turn,” the field of science and technology studies (STS) has strongly advocated opening up decision-making processes around to more perspectives knowledges. While theory democracy underpinning this is rarely explicitly addressed, language ideas used are often drawn from deliberative democracy. Using case synthetic biology Responsible Research Innovation (RRI), paper looks a...

The paper draws from Sergio Caruso’s reflections that the ‘extension’ and ‘intensification’ of citizenship are inseparable democracy. Within this framework, it questions how innovative formulations democracy such as so-called ‘deliberative arenas’ can contribute to strengthening citizenship. Specific attention is devoted public debate on major works, a privileged field inquiry for some assessme...

Robert LaFollette, the great progressive Senator and presidential candidate, famously argued that, ‘‘The cure for what ails democracy is more democracy.’’ One might aptly characterize Bruce Cain’s book, Democracy More or Less, as an extended rebuttal to LaFollette’s populist prescription for healing the body politic. Cain mounts a sustained assault on what he sees as the naı̈vely Whiggish optimi...