Although there has been much speculation regarding the strengths and weaknesses of face-to-face versus online deliberative settings, no studies have systematically compared the two. Drawing on a national sample of Americans who reported deliberating faceto-face and/or online, we examine these two deliberative settings with regard to the participants, the motivations, the process, and the effect...

Many scholars believe that electronic rulemaking has great but largely untapped potential to expand the public's democratic input and improve federal agency regulatory rules. The existing federal rulemaking process, however, elicits many redundant and poorly considered comments, and some participants challenge the legitimacy of agency rulemaking decisions. This Deliberative ERulemaking (DeER) p...

We estimate a model of strategic voting with incomplete information in which committee members – judges in the US courts of appeals – have the opportunity to communicate before casting their votes. The model is characterized by multiple equilibria, and partial identification of model parameters. We obtain confidence regions for these parameters using a two-step estimation procedure that allows ...

The extension and transformation of political participation is dependent on widespread deliberation supported by information and communication technologies. The most commonly found examples of these eParticipation systems are political discussion forums. Though much of the discussion of these technologies is conducted in the eGovernment and (particularly) the eDemocracy literature, political di...

Evolution of automated systems, in particular evolution of automated agents based on agent deliberation, is the topic of this paper. Evolution is not a merely material process, it requires interaction within and between individuals, their environments and societies of agents. An architecture for an individual agent capable of (1) deliberation about the creation of new agents, and (2) (run-time)...

In multiagent systems consisting of self-interested agents, forming a contract often requires complex, strategic thinking (Rosenschein & Zlotkin 1994, Vidal & Durfee 1996). In this abstract, we describe a stochastic contracting strategy for a utility-maximizing agent and discuss the impact of deliberation overhead on its performance.. In a contracting situation, an agent often faces many factor...

Deliberation typically involves the formation of a plan or intention from a set of values and beliefs. I suggest that deliberation, or “practical reasoning,” is a form of normative reasoning and that the understanding and construction of reasoning systems that can deliberate and act intentionally presupposes a theory of normative reasoning. The language and semantics of a deontic logic is used ...

ions” maintained by the system, and are often compared to cognitive processes – that 1 This is sometimes referred to as cognitive. 4 is, they are sometimes characterized as rational “thinking”. Reactive mechanisms are computations that produce a rapid response in the agent’s environment to a stimulus from that environment, and are thought to not involve “thinking”. Research efforts into these t...

Joshua Cohen In this essay I explore the ideal of a 'deliberative democracy'.1 By a deliberative democracy I shall mean, roughly, an association whose affairs are governed by the public deliberation of its members. I propose an account of the value of such an association that treats democracy itself as a fundamental political ideal and not simply as a derivative ideal that can be explained in t...

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