{"id":1160,"date":"2012-05-06T01:18:29","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T01:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2015-02-16T09:00:27","modified_gmt":"2015-02-16T09:00:27","slug":"2012-05-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.humanists.org\/blog\/2012-05-06\/","title":{"rendered":"When the People Speak \u2013 Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. James S. Fishkin<\/font><\/h4>\n

May 6, 2012<\/font><\/h4>\n

\"\"\u00a0 All over the world, democratic reforms have brought power to the people, but under conditions where the people have little opportunity to think about the power that they exercise. Stanford Professor James S. Fishkin<\/strong> will discuss his book whose title is the title of this talk. In this book, he combines a new theory of democracy with actual practice and shows how an idea that harks back to ancient Athenians and their use of the Kleroterion machine can be used to revive our modern democracies. Professor Fishkin is a Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science at Stanford. He is also Director of Stanford\u2019s Center for Deliberative Democracy and Chair of the Dept. of Communication.\u00a0 For more information on this critical subject see his web site:\u00a0 cdd.stanford.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n

 
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