Deliberation may increase the quality of decisions but also necessarily takes time and effort hence will have costs. But proponents deliberative democracy as an attractive or superior method for making almost all focus on presumed benefits while in practice ignoring costs associated with investing resources process deliberation. We show that cost side significantly influences performance proces...

Psychological phenomena have long been a focus of research on democratic deliberation, particularly concerning policy knowledge and attitudes other issues addressed in conventional scholarship political psychology. Yet recent years, the subject matter psychological deliberation has expanded to include wider array issues, ranging from lay conceptualizations not foregrounded traditional psycholog...

Discussion is frequently observed in democratic politics, but change in view is rarely observed. Call this the ‘unchanging minds hypothesis’. I assume that a given belief or desire is not isolated, but, rather, is located in a network structure of attitudes, such that persuasion sufficient to change an attitude in isolation is not sufficient to change the attitude as supported by its network. T...

This paper examines how three Dutch political parties employ the Internet as a tool to enhance ‘digital democracy’. The potential of digital democracy is considered to be strongest in the sphere of collective action outside the domain of political institutions. In this article, however, attention is given to how institutionalized channels might be supportive of digital democracy. Three componen...

We contend that, with a suitably broad notion of rationality and a diverse set of motivations, the game-theoretic tradition is particularly well suited for generating insights about effects of deliberative institutions and that progress in the development of deliberative democratic theory hinges on making proper sense of the relationship between game-theoretic and normative theoretic approaches...