Deliberative Processes in Practice

Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Learning by Doing; Comment on “Use of Evidence-informed Deliberative Processes by Health Technology Assessment Agencies Around the Globe”

The article by Oortwijn, Jansen, and Baltussen (OJB) is much more important than it appears because, in the absence of any good general theory of “evidence-informed deliberative processes” (EDP) and limited evidence of how they might be shaped and work in institutionalising health technology assessment (HTA), the best approach seems to be to accumulate the experience of...

Contingency Management and Deliberative Decision-Making Processes

Contingency management is an effective treatment for drug addiction. The current explanation for its success is rooted in alternative reinforcement theory. We suggest that alternative reinforcement theory is inadequate to explain the success of contingency management and produce a model based on demand curves that show how little the monetary rewards offered in this treatment would affect drug ...

Deliberative future visioning: utilizing the deliberative democracy theory and practice in futures research

Broadly defined, deliberative democracy aspires the decision-making legitimacy by deliberation of equal citizens. As a response to the growing discontent with the representational governance, the normative and empirical development of the deliberative democracy theory addresses the increasing desiderata of public engagement beyond party politics and constituencies. Generating knowledge for the ...

Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Early Dialogue, Broad Focus and Relevance: A Response to Recent Commentaries

DELIBERATIVE AND INCLUSIONARY PROCESSES A Report from Two Seminars

Three University research centres, CSERGE in East Anglia, ESRC in London, and the Centre for the Study of Environmental Change (CSEC) in Lancaster have combined to convene a series of seminars over three years on the issues and practices underlying deliberative and inclusionary processes in environmental decision making. This working paper contains a summary of presentations given at the first ...