Egocentric notions of fairness lead to conflict escalation, impasse, and efficiency losses. While communication may attenuate this self-serving bias, the authors find that more powerful parties are relatively less inclined to adjust their fairness views following communication in a negotiation. A more even reduction of egocentrism is achieved when parties are exhorted to communicate under delib...

Cancer screening is widely practiced and participation is promoted by various social, technical, and commercial drivers, but there are growing concerns about the emerging harms, risks, and costs of cancer screening. Deliberative democracy methods engage citizens in dialogue on substantial and complex problems: especially when evidence and values are important and people need time to understand ...

In this essay we defend a form of democracy that we will call "directlydeliberative polyarchy." We argue that it is an attractive kind of radical, participatory democracy with problem-solving capacities useful under current conditions and unavailable to representative systems. In directly deliberative polyarchy, collective decisions are made through public deliberation in arenas open to citizen...