[Air-L] deliberative democracy - good cases?

[Charles Ess]

Dear Aoirists, copy to May Thorseth, Robert Cavalier,

My colleague May Thorseth (Programme for Applied Ethics, Norwegian
University of Science and Technology, Trondheim) has written extensively on
deliberative democracy online - most recently:

Reflective judgment and enlarged thinking online
Ethics and Information Technology, Volume 10, Number 4 / December, 2008
DOI    10.1007/s10676-008-9166-6
Pages    221-231
(see <http://www.springerlink.com/content/e1vr2554g732v805>)

May discusses especially the deliberative polling projects done in the U.S.,
including Robert Cavalier's PICOLA ("Public Informed Citizen Online
Assembly) project <http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/picola/>, and places these in
the context of larger theoretical considerations regarding
"post-Habermasian" (my phrase) understandings of how to include as many
voices / styles within deliberation as possible (i.e., not simply
traditional rational argument, but also, e.g., narrative) and John Dewey's
classic articulation of "the problem of the public" in modern democracies.

Robert Cavalier can be reached at: <rc2z at andrew.cmu.edu>

Enjoy!
- charles ess

> 
> I am doing a research on deliberative democracy in virtual space and
> searching for "best practice" examples. Maybe anybody knows and could
> share the information about websites that are created to deliberate
> political issues, policies, laws, ect. And especially the ones created
> by government.
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> Best regards,
> Egle Butkeviciene
> 
> ---------------------
> Assoc. prof. dr. Egle Butkeviciene
> Kaunas University of Technology
> Department of Sociology
> Tel. +370 686 15858
> e-mail: egle.butkeviciene at ktu.lt
> 
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