Incivility and Intolerance in COVID-19 Discussions on Facebook by Martina Novotná, Alena Macková, Patrícia Rossini

“…We address the implications of different conditions in which incivility and intolerance occurred and their impact on deliberative democracy.…”
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Redefining filter bubbles as (escapable) socio-technical recursion by Davies, H

“…Yet, despite concerns that this effect is a threat to deliberative democracy, we are told there is relatively little evidence to substantiate its existence. …”

Citizens at the forefront of the constitutional debate: Voluntary citizen participation determinants and emergent content in Chile by María Paz Raveau, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Claudio Fuentes-Bravo, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, Cristian Candia

“…These results provide an empirical ground on the driver factors of voluntary citizen participation and on the benefits and disadvantages of deliberative democracy. Hence, results can inform the organization of new deliberative processes.…”
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Conversational AI and equity through assessing GPT-3’s communication with diverse social groups on contentious topics by Kaiping Chen, Anqi Shao, Jirayu Burapacheep, Yixuan Li

“…This paper presents a framework, rooted in deliberative democracy and science communication studies, to evaluate equity in human–AI communication. …”
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Points to consider in the development of national human genome editing policy by Dianne Nicol, Simon Niemeyer, Rebecca Paxton, Christopher Rudge

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Documentary Film Rhetoric: Saving Face and the Public Sphere by Vincent Piturro

“…As Christina Tangora Schlacter notes, the critical component of the public sphere “is the concept of a deliberative democracy: one in which there is critical analysis of democratic decisions and where social issues are based on the collective interest of the public…” (36). …”
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Citizens at the forefront of the constitutional debate: Voluntary citizen participation determinants and emergent content in Chile. by María Paz Raveau, Juan Pablo Couyoumdjian, Claudio Fuentes-Bravo, Carlos Rodriguez-Sickert, Cristian Candia

“…These results provide an empirical ground on the driver factors of voluntary citizen participation and on the benefits and disadvantages of deliberative democracy. Hence, results can inform the organization of new deliberative processes.…”
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« L’argument de la vitrine cassée est le meilleur du monde moderne ». Reconsidérer les rapports entre l’action directe et la politique délibérative by Francis Dupuis-Déri

“…Je reprends certains des commentaires qui me permettent de distinguer plusieurs formes de débats publics et de les pluraliser, pour faire place à des publics et des voix discordantes, dont un public anarchiste, qui par des actions directes revendique une voix égale aux autres publics.In this paper, I respond to comments and criticisms that have been addressed to a paper I have published in 2007 that articulated direct action and deliberative democracy. I concede that I was a little too optimistic in seeking through this confrontation a path that would lead to a dialogue, especially in a liberal political context. …”
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Procedure or principle: the role of adjudication in achieving the right to education by Fredman, S

“…Or can these cases be understood instead as furthering a reflexive law approach by facilitating experimentalism, under the wonderfully revealing title of polyarchic deliberative democracy? <br/><br/> The second aim of this paper is to examine more broadly the potential and limitations of the role a court can play in relation to a right, such as the right to education, which presents many difficult choices as to priorities of expenditure, and where rights of learners themselves may be in conflict with each other in conditions of resource scarcity or institutional capacity. …”

Democratising sustainability transformations: Assessing the transformative potential of democratic practices in environmental governance by Jonathan Pickering, Thomas Hickmann, Karin Bäckstrand, Agni Kalfagianni, Michael Bloomfield, Ayşem Mert, Hedda Ransan-Cooper, Alex Y. Lo

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Democratization in the Digital Era: Experience from Southeast Asia by Athiqah Nur Alami, Dien Nguyen An Luong, Ella Prihatini, Eryan Ramadhani, Jan Robert R. Go, Noorul Hafidzah, Ummu Atiyah

“…The research aims to examine how the digital sphere may or may not support inclusive and deliberative democracy in the region. Using elaboration on case studies from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Vietnam, the current study is reflecting on shared challenges and opportunities in preserving democracy amidst the rapid development of cyberspace as a mode of political communication. …”
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Social consequences of the 2020 regional elections in Indonesia under the covid-19 pandemic by V. L. Muzykant, M. A. Muqsith

“…The question is whether the governments argument to hold elections under the covid-19 pandemic was reasonable or, on the contrary, contributed to the wider spread of the covid-19 in Indonesia. Deliberative democracy should consider civil participation as the main pillar of the political system, which is relevant for the new social reality as based on the new social media technologies.…”
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Evictions and participation rights in India and South Africa by Sahgal, R

“…</p> <p>The thesis contributes to the literature on social rights, participation rights, judicial review, and deliberative democracy. It is likely to be of interest to scholars, activists, judges and lawyers working in these fields.…”

Participatory processes for public lands: Do provinces practice what they preach? by Lauren F. Miller, Solange Nadeau

“…This research reveals: (1) the importance of historical and cultural context as ongoing power imbalances shape the current dialogue and spaces for participation; (2) periods of robust and sound attempts at public participation in both provinces, with disappointments in implementation giving rise to a sense of futility, a closed system, and mistrust of government and industry over time; (3) a system of privileged access in opposition to the ideals of deliberative democracy and an equitable decision-making process; (4) in New Brunswick, public land policy implementation that is not reflective of participatory processes or of interests outside government and industry; (5) in Nova Scotia, recent efforts to incorporate values outside the government-industry policy realm, demonstrating an attempt to shift toward a more collaborative system for public land management.…”
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MindKind: A mixed-methods protocol for the feasibility of global digital mental health studies in young people [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations]

“…A companion qualitative study will employ a deliberative democracy approach to examine the preferences, concerns and expectations of young people, with respect to remote mental health research. …”
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Scarcity Amidst Plenty: Lower Himalayan Cities Struggling for Water Security by Hemant Ojha, Kaustuv Raj Neupane, Chandra Lal Pandey, Vishal Singh, Roshan Bajracharya, Ngamindra Dahal

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Territorial Public Self-Government as an Element of Political Infrastructure for Secure Development of Municipal Sections in the Conditions of Digitalization by E. N. Shchegolev

“…Easton, the theory of deliberative democracy by J. Besset, the theory of direct democracy I. …”
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Modifying the ASPECT Survey to Support the Validity of Student Perception Data from Different Active Learning Environments by Nicole Naibert, Erin E. Shortlidge, Jack Barbera

“…When data were collected after a “deliberative democracy” (DD) activity, 17 items were found to contribute to 3 factors related to ‘personal effort’, ‘value of the environment’, and ‘instructor contribution’. …”
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E-Participation in the Context of Democracy Concept Transformation by Andrei Vladimirovich Chugunov

“…Such democracy models as Legitimate Democracy, Participatory Democracy, Deliberative Democracy, Democratic Autonomy are reviewed in more detail due to their relevance in the modern context of global transformations that create a new digital medium for government-citizen interaction. …”
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Reciprocal Communication and Political Deliberation on Twitter by Robert Ackland, Felix Gumbert, Ole Pütz, Bryan Gertzel, Matthias Orlikowski

“…Social media platforms such as Twitter/X are increasingly important for political communication but the empirical question as to whether such communication enhances democratic consensus building (the ideal of deliberative democracy) or instead contributes to societal polarisation via fostering of hate speech and “information disorders” such as echo chambers is worth exploring. …”
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