This article examines whether democratic deliberation can enhance participants’ capacity to consider future generations’ perspectives and willingness make sacrifices ensure their well-being. In addition normal deliberation, we are interested in the effects of a mental time travel exercise where deliberators imagine themselves (without ageing). The study is based on an experiment conducted as pa...

This special issue contributes to the bourgeoning literature that connects political parties and deliberative practices. It answers two related research questions: why do engage in deliberation? what are ways which practices can address challenges faced by responding a changing internal external environment? Its articles cover both theoretical concepts practical aspects emerged different settin...

Abstract This paper contributes to growing debates over the decision-making ability of democracy by considering epistemic value deliberative democracy. It focuses on benefits democratic deliberation can derive from its diversity, and extent which these be realised with respect complexities political problems. The first calls attention issue complexity through a critique Hélène Landemore Diversi...

Hélène Landemore and Ana Tanasoca have recently proposed two different approaches to deepening the deliberative dimension of democracy. In Open Democracy (2020), introduces a novel paradigm democracy—open democracy—which grants ordinary citizens access an actual exercise political power through innovative forms democratic representation. In Deliberation Naturalized&am...

In this paper, we aim at exploring how rationality may become a practical accomplishment. We maintain that it is not known or adequately understood how organisational actors may actually produce ‘rational judgement’ in practice. We thus examined a context where actors seek to be purposefully rational when making healthcare funding decisions. Building on a focused ethnography of decision making ...

There is a surprising disconnect between formal rational choice theory and philosophical work on reasons. The one is silent on the role of reasons in rational choices, the other rarely engages with the formal models of decision problems used by social scientists. To bridge this gap, we propose a new, reason-based theory of rational choice. At its core is an account of preference formation, acco...