On February 21, 2024, Deliberation of the State Environmental Council (CONSEMA) No. 01/2024 was published in the Official Gazette, establishing jurisdictions for the municipal environmental licensing ...

In September 2019, 523 Americans traveled to Dallas, Texas, for an experiment called “America in One Room.” The gathering was designed to test a theory: Could representative citizens deliberate ...

Community colleges that held Deliberation Week events included: Broome Community College (Binghamton, NY) and Middlesex Community College (Bedford and Lowell, MA). Schools that added a broadcast ...

Deliberative Opinion Polls® create a unique "poll with a human face" that is unlike traditional surveys. The results reveal the conclusions the public would reach if people had the chance to become ...

Stanford professor James Fishkin has been making the case for deliberative democracy since I was an undergraduate in Palo Alto close to 20 years ago. Over decades of work on deliberative polling and ...

The presidential debates mark the moment of enlightenment in the campaign. For 90 minutes, the candidates face each other without their ads and spin directly filtering communication. At least some ...

Pepper D Culpepper, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at Harvard University, Archon Fung, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Taubman Center ...

, CC BY 2.0Politicians are the least trusted of all professions in this country. Scandals involving expenses, sex or drugs certainly do nothing to reverse this trend but there is a more omnipresent ...