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 ...

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, ...

Ari explores forms of deliberative democracy around the world that empower citizens. Ari explores the power of deliberative democracy, where citizens are actively involved in decision-making processes ...

Deliberative democracy is a model of governance in which citizens engage in structured discussion and collective reasoning to inform public decision-making. Unlike traditional electoral systems that ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jgeneeduc.68.1-2.0032 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jgeneeduc.68.1-2.0032 Copy URL ABSTRACT This article traces the ...

As universities roar back to life with renewed expectations, students head to institutions that will shape their lives both now and in the future. At university, students are presented with various ...

This is the first column in “Democracy Do-Over,” a weekly series exploring and making the case for improvements in how we elect public servants and ensure effective representation by all levels of ...

University campuses across North America are increasingly polarized places—both for university communities themselves and for the public at large. In the last year, protests over the Gaza war have led ...

Agencies often cite the privilege when denying records requests, but RCFP's Gunita Singh offers journalists tips to avoid rejection. This is Part 2 of a two-part series on FOIA’s deliberative process ...