Deliberative democracy by the people themselves is a distinctive form of democratic practice. It can be distinguished from deliberative democracy practiced by elites or representatives as well as from other forms of democracy that do not emphasize deliberation. In this article I explore ways this kind of democracy can be realized and then inserted into our current democratic institutions. The i...

9 This paper presents a multi-agent architecture that facilitates the development of real-time multi-agent systems based on the SIMBA 10 approach. The approach allows the integration of unbounded deliberative processes with critical real-time tasks. CBP-BDI deliberative 11 agents collaborate with ARTIS agents in order to solve real-time problems efficiently. The proposal has been successfully t...

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 ...

Although the personality trait of urgency has been linked to problem gambling, less is known about psychological mechanisms that mediate the relationship between urgency and problem gambling. One individual variable of potential relevance to impulsivity and addictive disorders is age. The aims of this study were to examine: (i) a theoretical model associating urgency and gambling problems, (ii)...

In this paper we argue that task design affects rule breaking in the workplace. Specifically, we propose that task variety activates deliberative (Type 2) processes as opposed to automatic/intuitive (Type 1) processes, which, in turn, helps prevent individuals from breaking rules in order to serve their own hedonic self-interest. We use data from the home loan application processing operations ...

Much of the most expressive behavior in humans expressions of shock or alarm, gaze aversion, or explosive rage are the result of automatic processes that engage before deliberative processing can respond. In some cases, such as weeping, the deliberative system may have only limited ability to override the automatic system. These processes are implemented by a network of phylogenetically old, sp...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) can help countries attain and sustain universal health coverage (UHC), as long as it is context-specific and considered within deliberative processes at the country level. Institutionalising robust deliberative processes requires significant time and resources, however, and countries often begin by demanding evidence (including local CEA evidence as well as evi...

Background Evidence-informed deliberative processes (EDPs) were recently introduced to guide health technology assessment (HTA) agencies to improve their processes towards more legitimate decision-making. The EDP framework provides guidance that covers the HTA process, ie, contextual factors, installation of an appraisal committee, selecting health technologies and criteria, assessment, a...