Center for Deliberative Democracy
The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.
News & Events
- When Citizens Deliberate, A New Science of Virtues
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Deliberative Polling should be used in key policy issues like energy
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The Deliberative Initiative: Returning Direct Democracy to the People
James Fishkin's SFGate City Brights post on charting a new path to a successful California initiative process. - A California experiment in democracy, San Francisco Chronicle
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What’s Next California? Final Report
View complete results from California's first statewide Deliberative Poll®. -
A people's tool for democratic reform, SFGate - The Opinion Shop
Deliberative Polling® in California could result in a set of people’s initiatives that would go before voters for approval or rejection. -
SPUR Evening Forum: What’s Next California? The Power of Deliberative Polling
A panel of three key organizers of the project — James Fishkin of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University, Zabrae Valentine of California Forward and Lenny Mendonca of McKinsey & Company — will discuss the project process and findings. The event will include a screening of the PBS NewsHour-produced documentary about the project, narrated by Judy Woodruff. Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 6pm. - PBS Newshour broadcast features the What's Next California? Deliberative Poll®
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How to Fix California’s Democracy Crisis
James Fishkin's Op-Ed article in the New York Times discusses reforms supported by participants in the What's Next California? Deliberative Poll® -
Process based on Deliberative Polling® a winner of the McKinsey/Harvard Business Review M-Prize in the Management 2.0 Challenge
- Social technologies on the front line: The Management 2.0 M-Prize winners, McKinsey Quarterly
- Are Radical Innovations a thing of the past?, Financial Times
Deliberative Polling®
- Deliberative Polling®: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy
An executive summary of Deliberative Polling® to date, including the results of polls conducted in England, Australia, Denmark and the United States.
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Deliberative Polling®
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Deliberative Polling®, developed by Professor James S. Fishkin, is a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues. A number of Deliberative Polls have been conducted in various countries around the world, including Britain, Australia, Denmark, and in the US, some national and some local.