What Is Deliberative Democracy? Most fundamentally, deliberative democracy affirms the need to jus-tify decisions made by citizens and their representatives. Both are ex-pected to justify the …

Access the full OECD Database of Representative Deliberative Processes and Institutions (2021) with almost 600 examples featured in the OECD’s flagship report Catching the Deliberative …

Here, we review political deliberation based on who is deliberating and what role these deliberations play in making binding decisions. First, ordinary citi zens frequently deliberate in …

Deliberative democracy is an approach to politics in which citizens, not just experts or politicians, are deeply involved in public decision making and problem-solving.

At the center of the idea, deliberative democracy is that the “will of the people” should be based on the consideration of competing arguments about their merits of each policy choice.

Ian O’Flynn is a political theorist with more than twenty years of experience in the field of deliberative democracy. His most recent book, Deliberative Democracy, provides a panoramic …

(iii) Deliberative democracy mechanisms have been proposed as a means of ad-dressing policy disagreements concerning the status (or permissibility) of so-cial/ cultural practices or …