Deliberative democracy

During this section of class we talked about deliberative democracy and how we could people to participate. For this question you asked us to answer three different questions about deliberative democracy. The first question is what is the value of multiculturalism and deliberate democracy? Next the second question asked how and why participation and deliberation are necessary for the deliberative model of democracy. Finally, the last question asked us to contrast the deliberative democracy model with one other political approach in which I chose aggregative democracy. In chapter eight of the book it discusses deliberative democracy and multiculturalism and the values that are contained in both approaches. Deliberative democracy takes place…

by strengthening my examples, especially with diversity. I have learned how truly diverse deliberative democracy is. How everyone from children to adults can take part. Another essay the one over deliberation vs. debate could have been vastly improved. One of the ways would be by stressing how it plays a role in our American society. How we can not start to teach children the importance of deliberation if there are not proper role models for them to…

spontaneous process is based on one’s perception of that immediate instance versus the deliberative process where there is deliberation regarding behavioral options. Fazio (1990, 1999) argues that attitudes can dictate behavior in a spontaneous manner, without the individual consciously reflecting on the relevant attitude and without the individual’s awareness of the attitude’s influence. Memory automatically activates the attitude upon an immediate encounter with the attitude object, and this…

that the city-state too cannot remain the same” (1276b). Democracy is among the several different types of constitutions Aristotle recognizes. Democracy is what Aristotle describes as a “deviant constitution.” This type of constitution is deviant because it is for the benefit of the poor, but not for its common profit. Though democracy is the most moderate deviant constitution and arises from polity. City-states in which the poor, or those who do not possess much property, are in authority…

The first article Can Citizen Participation Become Reasonable goes over community participation and the reasonable person model. We discussed this articles example in class last Thursday and it brought up some good points about public meetings as a means of engagement. Public meetings are not the best method of getting information or help from the public because they are only one day usually, the group that shows up isn’t indicative of the entire community, and many people who come may not speak…

Margaret Mead said: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.” I truly believe in the power of groups, and even better, well informed citizens that can create an impact in society fighting for change and been able to demand quality in their governments. A well informed person has an opinion, can comment and refute . The vitality of a democracy depends on the quality of its citizens, especially the amount of…

Democratic societies, when observed through the lens of deliberation, are reliant upon the exchange of information to reach (something close to) truth. The Greeks at the Agora at Athens regarded deliberative democracy as a means of “weighing” benefit and consequence (Shepard 1935). With such an ideal in mind, one may be lead to look upon the current state of information with favor—after all, the modern individual lives surrounded by information. However, the heightened pool of information and…

Thirty years since C.E.S. Franks published his authoritative 1987 work The Parliament of Canada, and despite the elevated media profile for would-be parliamentarian reformers and refuseniks after the Lefebvre and McGrath parliamentary reforms, the current Canadian House of Commons committee system remains comparatively understudied to similar Westminster-style democracies. Decades worth of government responses to committee recommendations are largely untouched, even by the Library of…

“Man is by nature a political animal” is perhaps the most quoted phrase from Aristotle’s Politics despite the observation that the context in which this claim was made has not always been properly understood. Recently, however, frustrations with the lack of political participation in modern liberal democracies have contributed to renewed interest in some of Aristotle’s ideas—namely, democratic theory. Throughout chapters 9 to 13 of Book 3 of Politics, Aristotle provides an empirical assessment…

2A To consider democracy as “government by the people” is a very broad and general definition for the term. In all branches of the government proposed by the Constitution, the officials’ decisions can somehow be traced back to the wishes of the people. However, some branches represent the people much more directly than others. The framers of the Constitution knew that the American people would not accept a monarchy or aristocracy, but they also knew the dangers of complete democracy. Thus, the…