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@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@ktu.lt
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