The MIT Deliberatorium, a technology aimed at supporting large-scale online deliberation, follows a similar strategy.
This research contributes to an important yet overlooked theme in sustainability transitions scholarship: the role of normative deliberation in large-scale systemic change.
Given the social circumstances of large-scale and pluralistic modern societies, distinctively democratic deliberation requires the "medium of law," so that the results of deliberation must be expressed through law.
Web 2.0 technologies, such as forums and wikis, are enabling an explosion of global knowledge sharing through distributed large-scale conversations, but they seem to be less successful at supporting collaborative deliberation around complex and controversial questions.
If a critical mass of (diverse) actors becomes involved in a large-scale, mandated assessment process, it may become hard for particular interest groups to avoid any engagement in an open deliberation process, that is, in the open exchange of scientifically informed arguments (Sabatier, 2007).
The U.S. deliberations reflect the scale of the challenges that remain in Afghanistan, where Taliban militants have been able to mount large-scale attacks and, in some instances, reverse hard-fought military gains.
Ah, large-scale ecclesiastical patronage.
However, given the scale of large-scale assessments, their scope for identifying relevant deliberative SPI processes, as well as their relatively higher profile and ability to provide motivation for other SPIs to engage with them, large-scale assessments would fare comparatively well in terms of realizing linkages between spaces for deliberation.
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