OBJECTIVE To describe the Inala Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Community Jury for Health Research, and evaluate its usefulness as a model of Indigenous research governance within an urban Indigenous primary health care service from the perspectives of jury members and researchers. METHODS Informed by a phenomenological approach and using narrative inquiry, a focus group was conducted w...

In The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy, Gavin Mooney (2012) strongly argues that more can be done to improve peoples’ health in both developing and developed countries. One central way forward provided is for governments to replace market-led ‘neoliberal’ policies with community-led policies. An important component in building this case involves understanding health care as a...

Asatisfactory model of decision-making in an epistemic democracy must respect democratic values, while advancing citizens’ interests, by taking account of relevant knowledge about the world. Analysis of passages in Aristotle and legislative process in classical Athens points to a “middle way” between independent-guess aggregation and deliberation: an epistemic approach to decision-making that o...

Vangelis Th. PASCHOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Directeur de thèse Bruno ESCOFFIER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Co-Directeur de thèse Éric ANGEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Decision-making in a democracy must respect democratic values, while advancing citizens’ interests. Decisions made in an epistemic democracy must also take into account relevant knowledge about the world. Neither aggregation of independent guesses nor deliberation, the standard approaches to epistemic democracy, offers a satisfactory theory of decision-making that is at once time-sensitive and ...

Abstract In 330 BCE, before a jury of 501 Athenian citizens, the statesman Demosthenes delivered what would become his most famous court speech, On Crown . Commentators have called speech “tragic” owing to litigant's unusual appropriation tropes from Attic tragedy make case. I offer an alternative reading Demosthenes's that rests upon approach theorizing democratic judgment. argue rhetorical fo...