For however ideally it is constructed, no single deliberative experiment could possess on a large scale a deliberative capacity adequate "to legitimate most of the decisions and policies that democracies adopt" (Mansbridge et al. 2012: 1).
We are selecting a group of our readers to participate in TechCrunch's first experiment with deliberative polling.
The EU has experimented with deliberative democracy to involve people from all the member states to help chart Europe's future.
In the political sphere, many communities are experimenting with "deliberative democracy," in which citizens come together to have longer and more informed discussions about policy issues that then feed into the larger debate on political choices.
Canadians have experimented successfully with democratic deliberative mechanisms on a range of issues such as electoral reform 176 and many others.
A combination of in-depth patient interviews, consenting "experiments", and community engagement using Deliberative Democracy methods are being employed.
A host of experiments with consensus conferences, citizens' juries, deliberative polls, even the Royal Society's new annual Science and Society Forum, all have in common that people are convinced they will be listened to, as well as told what's what scientifically.
For Govindarajan, transformation is a deliberative process that must be cultivated through well-structured experiments and adaptation.
Now is the perfect time to experiment with the long-awaited forms of deliberative democracy that could incorporate greater citizen input into policy-making.
