The word "deliberative" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an activity or process that involves careful consideration and thoughtfulness. For example, "The meeting was a deliberative process where they carefully weighed the pros and cons of their decision."
I remain convinced that ordinary city-dwellers can use networked informatics beneficially, to support them in their aims of group coordination, collective decision-making and deliberative self-determination.
This was the second deliberative body in the kingdom, and they ought not to commit themselves lightly to the policy of interference with internal concerns of other nations, as they would do if they consented to this resolution.
Conflicting gay-rights laws may force decisive litigation on the matter, for example, and a battle between the states and the federal government over drug laws may be just the spark that is needed for a long-overdue national dialogue on the drug war.Many observers argue that ballot initiatives are merely a crude tool for moneyed interests to circumvent deliberative democracy.
On May 10th the Central Party School, a hatchery for Beijing's top cadres, will start a pow-wow on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy.
But the approach is returning in a modern guise, under the label of "deliberative democracy .A leading practitioner is James Fishkin of Stanford University.
He posits two general systems of thinking: System 1, intuitive and quick, good for most purposes, but prone to those pesky cognitive traps; and System 2, deliberative and slow, better at higher reasoning but effortful to activate and keep active.
"System 2", by contrast, is slow, deliberative and less prone to error.
It has weakened the checks and balances built into Congress (the Senate, supposedly the more deliberative chamber, has not yet even got around to debating Mr Bush's "surge" in Iraq).
The world's greatest deliberative body, by contrast, is often deserted, save for the speech-maker and a couple of bored figures awaiting their turns.Many Americans long to curb mediacracy with some kind of reform.
In a world that often demands swift judgment and rapid decision-making (fight or flight?), a creature who solely relied on deliberative thinking wouldn't last long.
In any case, I think the actively deliberative nature of Iowa's unique caucuses effectively adds, oh, about two points to Iowa's average, making us clearly best-suited to the task of winnowing down the presidential field to a number manageable by those dwelling in slightly dimmer, heavily urban states.
