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11Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling: Criteria and MethodsHastings Center Report 51 (S2): 19-24. 2021.This article poses the problem of public consultation on contested policies involving new technologies and competing values or value‐laden goals. It argues that Deliberative Polling, an approach developed by the author, can be usefully employed to engage representative samples to deliberate in depth in controlled experiments so as to yield a picture of the public's considered judgments. It also argues from recent experience that such consultations can be cost effectively conducted online with st…Read more
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10Random Assemblies for Lawmaking? Prospects and LimitsPolitics and Society 46 (3): 359-379. 2018.A randomly selected microcosm of the people can usefully play an official role in the lawmaking process. However, there are serious issues to be confronted if such a random sample were to take on the role of a full-scale, full-time second chamber. Some skeptical considerations are detailed. There are also advantages to short convenings of such a sample to take on some of the roles of a second chamber. This article provides a response to the skeptical considerations. Precedents from ancient Athen…Read more
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7Deliberative democracyIn Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy, Blackwell. 2002.The prelims comprise: The Athenian Solution The Filter The Mirror The “Mob” The Apparent Conundrum Referendum Democracy versus Deliberation Modern Deliberative Microcosms The Role of Representatives Notes Bibliography.
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7Why Deliberative Polling? Reply to GleasonCritical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 23 (3): 393-403. 2011.Contrary to Laurel Gleason's assertions, Deliberative Polling among random samples is not a process that is dominated by “experts” or by certain categories of deliberator; it produces genuine gains among the participants in knowledge of information that has been verified as true and relevant; it does not cause ideological polarization; and it is not intended as a substitute for, rather than a supplement to, deliberation on the part of the general public.
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6Book Review:Rights and Goods: Justifying Social Action. Virginia Held (review)Ethics 97 (2): 473-. 1987.
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6Book ReviewsIan Shapiro,. The Moral Foundations of Politics.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $32.00 ; $19.00 (review)Ethics 117 (2): 381-383. 2007.
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6Deliberation DayIn James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell. 2003.Voting Institutions Justifications Notes.
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5IntroductionIn James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Blackwell. 2003.
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4Political Theory Without BordersWiley-Blackwell. 2015.Political Theory Without Borders offers a comprehensive survey of the issues that have shaped political theory in the wake of social and environmental globalization. Focuses on specific questions that arise from issues of global spillovers like climate change and pollution, international immigration, and political intervention abroad Includes chapters written by some of the best new scholars working in the field today, along with key texts from some of the most well-known scholars of previous ge…Read more
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4Review of Virginia Held: Rights and goods: justifying social action (review)Ethics 97 (2): 473-474. 1987.
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4Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political PhilosophyHastings Center Report 15 (2): 46. 1985.Book reviewed in this article: Morality and Conflict. By Stuart Hampshire. Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political Philosophy. By James S. Fishkin.
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4The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective SocietyYale University Press. 1992.People around the world are agitating for democracy and individual rights, but there is no consensus on a theory of liberal democracy that might guide them. What are the first principles of a just society? What political theory should shape public policy in such a society? In this book, James S. Fishkin offers a new basis for answering these questions by proposing the ideal of a "self-reflective society"—a political culture in which citizens are able to decide their own fate through unconstraine…Read more
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2Review of Michael D. Bayles: Principles of Legislation: The Uses of Political Authority (review)Ethics 90 (4): 618-618. 1980.
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Philosophy, Politics and Society, Sixth Series: Justice between Age Groups and GenerationsEnvironmental Values 2 (2): 187-188. 1993.
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Liberty versus Equal OpportunityIn Louis P. Pojman & Robert Westmoreland (eds.), Equality: Selected Readings, Oup Usa. 1997.