For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

The argument scholars Thomas Hollihan and Kevin Baaske explain in “Arguments and Arguing” that to engage in deliberative democracy, citizens must display the willingness, knowledge, civility, and ...

Two weeks ago, Vice President Kamala Harris sat down with Fox News anchor Bret Baier for a conversation. This “conversation” entailed a series of heated questions and provocative moves by Baier, ...

Democratic deliberation asks us to meet as moral equals, exchange reasons for our beliefs, consider evidence, and remain open to changing our minds. Evidence from real-world examples shows that it can ...

The benefits and likely outcomes of a slow-moving, expert-led commission are profoundly uncertain. But a deliberative ...

If democracy is going to flourish on this planet, its practitioners must be members of the same team. Unfortunately, global democracy is a field divided. Democratic activists, experts and reformers ...