The development process resulted in the European Moral Case Deliberation Outcomes Instrument (Euro-MCD), which consists of two sections, one to be completed before a participant's first MCD and the other after completing multiple MCDs.
Based on characteristics of the decision-making process (tradition vs. deliberation) and outcome (vaccinate or not), 4 subgroups of parents could be distinguished: traditionally non-vaccinating parents, deliberately non-vaccinating parents, deliberately vaccinating parents, and traditionally vaccinating parents.
He told Abbott: "With this letter I express my appreciation for your work, prime minister, and I offer my prayerful encouragement for the deliberations and outcome of the summit … I offer you my prayerful best wishes for the successful conclusion of Australia's presidency and I willingly assure you of my highest consideration".
What role has U.S. leadership played in its deliberations and outcomes?
Anchored within a broader theoretical framework around shared and plural values, the DVF model identifies a range of potential positive (e.g. learning) and negative (e.g. social desirability bias) outcomes of deliberation and key factors that influence outcomes (e.g. ability to deliberate, institutional factors, power dynamics).
They might do so, however, if they are politically convinced and if the government makes a serious effort to debate the issues accepting that the outcome of deliberation must be uncertain at the start.
Or we can consider an agent's action as the outcome of deliberation, as a decision of what the agent is to do as a result of considering the various reasons in play.
Argumentation, as a social practice, may be explained as a verbal process that occurs between representatives of social groups, turning it into a worthwhile object of linguistic analysis, since the deliberation and the eventual outcome of the debate, often in the form of a compromise, are the result of a dialogical exchange of propositions.
In any case of this kind, where it is assumed that the facts cannot be established with certainty, considerations of what is plausible may, given sufficient ingenuity, be adduced on either side, and similar arguments can be adduced in the context of political deliberation, where the future outcome cannot be certain and the decision has to turn on the balance of probabilities.
