Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling: Criteria and Methods

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...

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Published inThe Hastings Center report Vol. 51; no. S2; pp. S19 - S24
Main Author Fishkin, James S.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2021
Subjects
bioethics
deliberative democracy
deliberative polling
democratic deliberation
Health Policy
Humans
public consultation
public deliberation
public opinion
Referral and Consultation
bioethics
deliberative polling
democratic deliberation
public opinion
public deliberation
deliberative democracy
public consultation
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Summary: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 stratified random samples. It draws on examples from various issue domains including climate and energy as well as prototype deliberations conducted on gene editing in the wild. It sets out criteria that Deliberative Polling, as well as other designs, should satisfy if policy recommendations based on the data generated by these public consultations are to be credible.
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ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
DOI:10.1002/hast.1316