Abstract This article is based on three experiments in citizen deliberation. We ask whether disagreement at group level as well individual influence participants’ experiences of In all experiments, participants discussed small groups and answered surveys before after deliberations. The were population-based with random selection. topic the first deliberation was nuclear power, second dealt immi...

Despite promotion of evidence-based policy responses, there remains a knowledge gap between policy-makers and academia particularly in transport policy making, which is steeped in positivist traditions. A number of social policy academics have conceptualised research utilisation in relation to particular elements of social policy, but less attention has been paid to the integration of deliberat...

This paper explores the relationship between narrative inclusion and notion of equality from perspective theory deliberative democracy. It is based on assumption that taking into account diversity discursive competences influences constructed justifications constituting source legitimacy political decisions. Moving beyond a purely argumentative discourse towards emphasising pluralism provides s...

Background The development of reliable, high quality health-related guidelines depends on explicit and transparent processes, methods aimed at minimising risks of bias and the inclusion of all relevant expertise and perspectives. While the methodological aspects of guidelines have been a focus to improve their quality, less is known...

The aim of this paper is to show a method that is able to detect inconsistencies in the reasoning carried out by a deliberative agent. The agent is supposed to be provided with a hybrid Knowledge Base expressed in a language called CCR-2, based on production rules and hierarchies of frames, which permits the representation of non-monotonic reasoning, uncertain reasoning and arithmetic constrain...