In this paper, we empirically test for the influence of fairness considerations on the willingness to redistribute income in private and in democratic decisions. In contrast to standard explanations of income redistribution, our theory takes into account that prices shift decisively as we move from the sphere of private contributions to politics. At the polls, it is nearly costless to observe s...

Citizen science is a multilayered concept. Although it generally understood as form of public engagement with and technology, can take various forms, widely different roles for citizens. Despite this vastness, “contributory” strand citizen dominates the field, which formally limits citizens’ to those data gatherers professional scientists or experts. This has led critics argue that not inclusiv...

We study a setting in which community wishes to identify strongly supported proposal from large space of alternatives, order change the status quo. describe deliberation process agents dynamically form coalitions around proposals that they prefer over formulate conditions on and ways are formed guarantee succeed, is, terminate by identifying with largest possible support. Our results provide th...

There is a growing trend among developed countries to increase the participation of youth in societal and institutional decision-making. The challenge is to move away from an illusion of participation (tokenism) to genuine youth influence. This article transfers knowledge of a relatively new theory to the fields of youth engagement and community development. We pose deliberative democracy as a ...

Abstract The rational faculties of intellect and will were at the heart many important issues in Middle Ages, including relationship between deliberation free choice, explanation intentional action, movement body by soul. In contributions that follow, Tobias Hofffmann, Sonja Schierbaum, Can Laurens Löwe address these issues, respectively. addition to clarifying various aspects later medieval ps...

Our aim is to expand the regulative ideal governing consent. We argue that consent should not only be informed but also based on rational beliefs. We argue that holding true beliefs promotes autonomy. Information is important insofar as it helps a person to hold the relevant true beliefs. But in order to hold the relevant true beliefs, competent people must also think rationally. Insofar as inf...

The emerging research area of eParticipation can be characterized as the study of technologyfacilitated citizen participation in (democratic) deliberation and decision-making. Using conventional literature study techniques, we identify 105 articles that are considered to be highly relevant to eParticipation. We develop a definitional schema that suggests different ways of understanding an emerg...

Commonplace among deliberative theorists is the view that, when defending preferred laws and policies, citizens should appeal only to reasons they expect others reasonably to accept. This view has been challenged on the grounds that it places an undue burden on religious citizens who feel duty-bound to appeal to religious reasons to justify preferred positions. In response, I develop a concepti...

This article reports a pioneering case study of a crowdsourced law-reform process in Finland. In the crowdsourcing experiment, the public was invited to contribute to the law-reform process by sharing their knowledge and ideas for a better policy. This article introduces a normative design framework of five principles for crowdsourced policymaking: inclusiveness, accountability, transparency, m...