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Precaution, threshold risk and public deliberation
Bioethics, 2018AbstractIt has been argued that the precautionary principle is incoherent and thus useless as a guide for regulatory policy. In a recent paper in Bioethics, Wareham and Nardini propose a response to the ‘precautionary paradox’ according to which the precautionary principle's usefulness for decision making in policy and regulation contexts can be ...
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Public deliberation in municipal planning
Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Communities and Technologies, 2011This paper reports on an exploratory participatory design process aimed at supporting citizen deliberation in municipal planning. It presents the main outcomes of this process in terms of selected prototypes and an approach to the use setting. We support and discuss different ways for citizens to act and reflect on proposed plans: in-situ, while ...
Morten Bohøj +4 more
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The Value of Public Deliberation in Public Health Preparedness
The American Journal of Bioethics, 2009Baum and colleagues (2009) offer valuable empirical evidence for assessing the value of public deliberation as a tool of public health preparedness in an emergency.
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Religious Reasons in Public Deliberation
2018Abstract This chapter reviews the history of and analyzes current trends within normative debates about the role of religion in public deliberation. Starting with the idea of an “exclusivist” approach, we look at the status of religious reasons within the frameworks broadly inspired by Rawlsian and Habermasian theories of public reason ...
Andrew F. March, Alicia Steinmetz
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Does Deliberation Increase Public‐Spiritedness?
Social Science Quarterly, 2020ObjectiveThis article investigates the hypothesis, dating back to de Tocqueville and Mill, that deliberation helps make citizens more “public‐spirited,” increasing their support for policies that benefit the community, even at some possible cost to themselves.
Rui Wang +2 more
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Deliberating About the Public Interest
Res Publica, 2010Although the idea of the public interest features prominently in many accounts of deliberative democracy, the relationship between deliberative democracy and the public interest is rarely spelt out with any degree of precision. In this article, I identify and defend one particular way of framing this relationship.
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Argumentation Tactics and Public Deliberations
Administrative Theory & Praxis, 2019This article examines how elected officials, public administrators, and the public use argumentation tactics to influence policies in public meetings.
Susannah Bruns Ali, Sukumar Ganapati
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Analyzing public e-deliberation
2008Two questions are becoming increasingly important for academics and political actors: How do activists and citizens use the Internet devices of public debate? What is the impact of institutional design on debate features? In order to illustrate the utility of an interdisciplinary approach on these questions, we present a research on political webforums.
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