Collective deliberation is fuelled by disagreements and its epistemic value depends, inter alia, on how the participants respond to each other in disagreements. I use this accountability thesis to argue that deliberation may be valued not just instrumentally but also for its procedural features. The instrumental epistemic value of deliberation depends on whether it leads to more or less accurat...

In our paper we try to answer two empirical research questions. First, we assess the deliberative quality of discussions in two committees of the EU Parliament. In order to do so, we use a slightly revised version of the DQI. Second, we identify and empirically measure those variables that systematically influence the quality of deliberation in interviews with debate actors. We argue that the q...

In contrast with other formal theory treatments of democratic deliberation in terms of (1) strategic information pooling or (2) relaxing the assumption of logical omniscience, this paper considers the role of deliberation in coordinating citizens on a higherwelfare equilibrium. The equilibrium in question belongs to a post-deliberation game of fundamental action vis-à-vis other individuals: giv...

The article studies deliberation aspects by modelling a responder in multi-proposers ultimatum game (UG). Compared to the classical UG, deliberative multi-proposers UG suggests that at each round the responder selects the proposer to play with. Any change of the proposer (compared to the previous round) is penalised. The simulation results show that though switching of proposers incurred non-ne...

This text analyzes the relationship between political deliberation and democracy. Its content differs both from a scarcely normative idea of competitive politics, predominant in contemporary Political Science, and from a philosophical defense of the deliberation, founded on an idea of common reasonability or on an ideal of communicative speech. The central argument of the author is that deliber...