4. Get Parliament to pass an Act empowering a citizen's deliberative convention to decide on a set of major reforms.
If that happens, then a deliberative Convention, where all factions of the G.O.P. have a voice, could be what puts the Republican Party back together.
The Unlock Democracy campaign has a draft bill to empower a citizens' deliberative convention to decide on a set of major reforms.
Some conservatives, reviewing this history and watching the 2012 race with a degree of horror, argue that the Party should scrap the current system — the spawn of turn-of-the-century Progressives and nineteen-sixties antiwar leftists — in favor of a deliberative Convention.
Replacing deliberative party conventions with popular primaries has harmed political parties, the true engines of democracy, by encouraging a candidate-centered politics that emphasizes money, media and "momentum," which candidates acquire by beating up more on fellow party rivals than on the opposition.
The current vitality of the conventions stems from their successful transformation from deliberative bodies into television studios, with large in-house audiences.
The NEA has close to 3 million members, and its convention is dubbed "the world's largest deliberative assembly," with 7,000 delegates.
And his best speeches, she said, were examples of epideictic or ceremonial rhetoric, the kind we associate with conventions or funerals or important occasions, as opposed to the deliberative language of policymaking or the forensic language of argument and debate.
The convention itself would be an exercise in what is called "deliberative democracy".
They had created Conventions that, like the Roman Senate after Augustus Caesar, retained the form of a deliberative body, but only for the purpose of providing a structure within which to frame a spectacle--the spectacle of a deliberative body at work.
