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	NORC--Polls--Deliberative and Non-Deliberative (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In deliberative polls, however, the purpose of the discussion is to consider new information and discuss the differing views among the participants with the expectation that new or additional information and better understanding of other people's views will enrich or possible change the participants own views.
		The deliberative critique of ordinary public opinion surveys is based on the oft-stated view that respondents in surveys either lack significant information about the topic of the questions, and/or have neither thought much about the topic nor processed what information they have been exposed to (Fishkin, 199?).
		The deliberative poll seeks to correct this situation by providing a series of experiences that expose the participants to relevant factual material, give them the opportunity to get further information from credible sources and engage in conversation with other citizens about their views.
	www.norc.uchicago.edu /new/polls.htm (1754 words)

	Scottish Office: Involving Civil Society in the Work of Parliaments
		Deliberative opinion polling is the brainchild of the American political scientist James Fishkin, a professor at the University of Texas
		The first deliberative opinion poll was run in 1994 in the UK on the subject of crime.
		Taking the widely used opinion poll as his starting point, Fishkin argues that the information they provide is limited because individuals respond to questions that they may have given little or no thought to.
	www.scotland.gov.uk /government/devolution/cpsp-08.asp?textonly=FALSE (1240 words)

	CPN - Tools
		James Fishkin's deliberative opinion poll is based on the conviction that credible deliberative democracy requires a representative sample of the population, rather than self-selected citizen participation in community meetings and dialogue groups, or organized stakeholder participation in dispute resolution.
		The deliberative poll was first conducted in Britain on national television in 1994 with a representative sample of three hundred voters considering the issue of crime, and they seem to have developed a more complex understanding of the issue than previously held.
		Deliberative practice, by contrast, tends to be much more attuned to forms of speech (storytelling, expressions of hurt, anger and injustice) that situate participants in specific contexts and groups, and that reference inequalities in ways that can be productive of mutual understanding and common action.
	www.cpn.org /tools/dictionary/deliberate.html (2744 words)

	Deliberative Polling: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy
		In March 2002, a local Deliberative Polling® experiment was held at Yale with the fifteen towns in the New Haven metropolitan area on regional economic cooperation between the city and suburbs.
		Deliberative Polling® is especially suitable for issues where the public may have little knowledge or information, or where the public may have failed to confront the trade-offs applying to public policy.
		The Center for Deliberative Polling at the University of Texas, Austin was one of the co-sponsors of this project.
	cdd.stanford.edu /polls/docs/summary (3130 words)

	The deliberative poll offers new hope - On Line Opinion - 28/2/2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A deliberative poll tries to find out what people think about a topic, not off the top of their heads, but after they’ve been given the time and information to consider the pros and cons, and after they had time to discuss the issue among their peers and with various experts on the topic.
		Deliberative polls, or deliberative democracy more generally, presumes that citizens should have a more direct say in the running of their country and seeks to provide a way for them to do this.
		The deliberative poll goes a long way to equalising this power imbalance by seeing to it that the intellectuals can only speak when spoken to; that they can be told to shut up by the chair; and that the chair openly encourages interventions from the other participants.
	www.onlineopinion.com.au /view.asp?article=1057 (2058 words)

	Deliberative Democracy - P2P Foundation
		Working in groups as small as ten or twelve to larger groups of 3,000 or more, deliberative democracy simply requires that representative groups of ordinary citizens have access to balanced and accurate information, sufficient time to explore the intricacies of issues through discussion, and their conculsions are connected to the governing process.
		In the deliberative opinion poll, a statistically representative sample of the nation or a community is gathered to discuss an issue in conditions that further deliberation.
		The group is then polled, and the results of the poll and the actual deliberation can be used both as a recommending force and in certain circumstances, to replace a vote.
	www.p2pfoundation.net /index.php/Deliberative_Democracy (1445 words)

	Deliberative Polling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Deliberative Polling was devised precisely in order to combine statistical representativeness of the mass public with deliberation.
		The Deliberative Polling concept derives from an ancient form of democracy—the deliberative microcosms of five hundred or more citizens in Ancient Athens that were selected by lot for the Council, for legislative commissions and for citizens juries.
		The secret of Deliberative Polling, whether on a highly salient issue such as crime, or on a comparatively low visibility issue such as public utility regulation, is that the respondents must be convinced that their voice in the process will matter.
	cyber.law.harvard.edu /rcs/fish.html (2870 words)

	TAP: Vol 3, Iss. 11. Talk of the Tube. James Fishkin. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In addition, a near-daily supply of opinion polls, reporting the approval levels of candidates and the popularity of various positions, has given us a system that is far more plebiscitary in its use of direct democracy than textbook analyses of American institutions would suggest.
		A deliberative poll brings the people into the process but in a statistically controlled way; it uses the techniques of polling but under conditions where the responses represent more than echoes of shrinking soundbites; it uses television to amplify deliberation rather than to disseminate canned material or advertising.
		To be sure, a televised deliberative poll or kindred forms of policy jury are neither a new form of direct democracy nor a substitute for the more usual forms of representative democracy.
	www.prospect.org /print/V3/11/fishkin-j.html (3190 words)

	UT Feature Story -- An Exercise in Democracy: Deliberative Polling shows value of informed citizens
		A new kind of opinion research could yet prove that an informed and engaged citizenry may be the essential foundation for successful and thoughtful policy- and decision-making in a democracy.
		Deliberative Polls have been conducted by the team in the United States, Australia, Denmark, Bulgaria and Great Britain, and have shown dramatic shifts in opinions of the sample population after the event.
		The issues tackled in these Deliberative Polls have been complex and have included crime, the adoption of the Euro and the possible move of a country from a monarchy to a republic.
	www.utexas.edu /features/archive/2003/polling.html (1157 words)

	TWO SELECTIONS DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY
		Deliberative citizenship challenges the thinner concepts stressed by conventional liberal theory and the practices of interest group and welfare state politics.
		Deliberative theorists stress processes through which citizens come to understand values like public discussion, civility, and a commitment to the common good, and practice skills of listening, imagining, and judging, as well as presenting.
		Deliberative theory can tend to privilege speech that is too narrowly rationalistic and argumentative, and hence marginalize those groups (women, minorities) whose styles of discourse might differ from this.
	www2.ups.edu /SCXT/325d/delib.htm (3664 words)

	By The People: Deliberative Opinion Polls
		The polls showed how citizens' views on healthcare and education were changed by participating in dialogues organized by local PBS stations and their partners.
		Participants in By the People's online Deliberative Poll® thought that the number of Americans without health insurance was the single most important problem facing the system, and they were willing to support policies that would require at least some sacrifices on their part to deal with it.
		Polling of participants at the face-to-face deliberations was handled by local conveners with assistance from Yale University's Institution for Social and Policy Studies and technical help and data analysis from the Guild Group Inc.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/btp/articles/about_polls.html (1083 words)

	Opinion poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opinion polls are surveys of opinion using sampling.
		The first known example of an opinion poll was a local straw vote conducted by The Harrisburg Pennsylvanian in 1824, showing Andrew Jackson leading John Quincy Adams by 335 votes to 169 in the contest for the United States Presidency.
		The best-known failure of opinion polling to date in the United States was the prediction that Thomas Dewey would defeat Harry S. Truman in the 1948 U.S. Presidential election.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Opinion_poll (2382 words)

	The Town Hall Returns: Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Host Deliberative Poll, Carnegie Library of ...
		Deliberative polls give elected officials and policy makers a more accurate and dynamic picture of public opinion, and they give participants a sense that they have a stake and voice in their government.
		Deliberative Polls are true to the values of classical democracy upon which this nation was founded.
		All Deliberative Poll participants will be randomly selected in advance from residents living at addresses with zip codes that begin with 152, which includes the city of Pittsburgh and about 42 suburban communities throughout Allegheny County.
	www.clpgh.org /about/pressroom/2003/1-24-04delibpoll.html (852 words)

	Word Spy - deliberative poll
		An opinion poll conducted after respondents have been given information related to the poll's issues, as well as time to discuss and deliberate upon the information.
		At the beginning of the deliberative poll, 43 percent agreed that "the war in Iraq has gotten in the way of the war on terror," while 51 percent disagreed.
		The PBS National Issues Convention is the first national attempt to create a "deliberative opinion poll", a concept originally advanced in 1988 by James Fishkin, professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin.
	www.wordspy.com /words/deliberativepoll.asp (433 words)

	Only Salmond accepts poll that puts the SNP well ahead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Opinion poll ennui broke out among Scottish politicians last night after the release of a survey, widely regarded as unscientific, which suggested that the SNP was 14 points ahead of Labour.
		The Scottish 500 poll for Scottish Television, which came on the heels of two System 3 polls suggesting the SNP and Labour were neck and neck, was based on only 401 responses.
		Polling of the group at that stage proved unrepresentative, indicating a level of support for the SNP that was nine points higher than the eventual election result, while Labour's vote was underestimated by 4.5 percentage points and the Conservative vote was underestimated by 5.5 points.
	www.alba.org.uk /polls/500polls.html (1102 words)

	CPN - About CPN
		Inspired by professor James Fishkin's "deliberative opinion poll" and National Issues Convention ideas, the Convention is designed to afford a community the opportunity to deliberate, while ensuring that participants are as representative as possible of the community as a whole.
		A poll, for example, is often only an indication of what individuals are inclined to say about a problem or issue before they've had a chance to deliberate together.
		Polls and surveys do not capture what a community thinks, because a community is not the same thing as a collection of individuals.
	www.cpn.org /tools/manuals/Community/deliberative.html (7698 words)

	The Yale Herald - February 22, 2002 - Yale to host innovative public opinion study (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This man was one of hundreds participating in an experiment called a Deliberative Poll, which showed how participants' opinions could change when they were given access to information on both sides of public policy issues and given time to analyze all sides of the arguments.
		A Deliberative Poll is a unique experiment in public opinion research that, unlike random sample surveys, is designed to promote democratic participation.
		Deliberative Polls "are interested in coming up with an end result, and that end result is a better-informed citizen who can participate better in politics." These types of polls are not concerned with "just measuring something," he added.
	www.yaleherald.com /article.php?Article=360 (1259 words)

	"Electronic Democracy" by Scott London
		Deliberative participatory politics - where citizens and their leaders are engaged in a continual dialogue - was once the hallmark of American town hall democracy.
		An opinion is not a momentary thing but a process of thinking, shaped by the continuous acquisition of knowledge and the activity of questioning, discussion, and debate.
		Polling may have its value, but if deliberation is seen only as a means to that end it becomes necessarily contrived and ultimately meaningless.
	www.scottlondon.com /reports/ed.html (9642 words)

	First-ever online deliberative poll reveals informed opinions on worldwide issues: 1/03
		Unlike conventional surveys, Deliberative Polls (which is the registered trademark name) give participants the opportunity to learn about the subject under discussion before being questioned.
		Consequently, opinions expressed are more reasoned than typical "top-of-the-head" answers given in traditional polls, said Fishkin, who first developed the deliberative process in 1988 at Stanford's Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
		Results from the online deliberative poll, which were released Jan. 27, show that the 280 participants increased their willingness for the United States to take responsibility for problems around the world.
	www.stanford.edu /dept/news/pr/03/onlinepoll129.html (1090 words)

	Center for Deliberative Democracy
		The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.
		Deliberative Polling®: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy An executive summary of Deliberative Polling® to date, including the results of polls conducted in England, Australia, Denmark and the United States.
		Deliberative Polling®, developed by Professor James S. Fishkin, is a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues.
	cdd.stanford.edu (209 words)

	VOTER ASSEMBLY Resembles Large Independent Federal Grand Jury
		The typical sample size for a Gallup poll which is designed to represent this voting population is 1,000 national adults.
		The term deliberative here means simply that, as compared with the People as a whole, the Members within the institutional context of the Assembly will become better educated about the issues by information from various sources.
		A deliberative Assembly consisting of a cross-section of ordinary citizens will be able to make value tradeoffs relevant to their lives that would be difficult for Congresspersons to accomplish since they belong to an entirely different socio-economic class.
	www.cusdi.org /operations.htm (5853 words)

	Deliberative opinion poll - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The deliberative opinion poll is a form of Opinion poll that incorporates the principles of Deliberative democracy.
		PBS has worked with Fishkin via the By the People Program on several deliberative opinion polls, most recently in 2004, when it sponsored several regional deliberative polls around topics related to the 2004 national elections.
		Recently, PASOK held a deliberative poll to elect the party's candidate for the municipality of Amaroussion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Deliberative_opinion_poll (257 words)

	FNF: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY (Jón Erlendsson 2006-05-12) SOURCE: Deliberative democracy ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		On the other hand, many practitioners of deliberative democracy attempt to be as neutral and open-ended as possible, inviting (or even randomly selecting) people who represent a wide range of views and providing them with balanced materials to guide their discussions.
		Deliberative Polls, and the 21st-Century Town meetings convened by AmericaSpeaks, among others.
		Another strength of deliberative democratic models is that (according to their proponents) they tend, more than any other model, to generate ideal conditions of impartiality, rationality and knowledge of the relevant facts.
	www.hi.is /~joner/eaps/polit_Deliberative_democracy_1.htm (810 words)

	Deliberative Polling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		National Centre for Social Research- The institute’s place at the forefront of the study and analysis of public opinion led it to play a key role - alongside Professor James Fishkin, the originator of the idea - in designing, planning and implementing the first-ever deliberative poll.
		It was held in Manchester in the spring of 1994, and focused on the subject of crime and punishment.
		In this week's University of Cincinnati e-briefing, we examine the controversial concept of "deliberative polling," which departs from conventional opinion polling by creating a model that shows how individuals might respond, if they had more opportunity to think about the issues at hand.
	info.wlu.ca /lispop/rres/delib_poll.htm (1501 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Press Release: September 21, 2004
		The poll will be one of many "Citizen Deliberations" to take place in 17 communities across the nation as part of By the People: America in the World, a program sponsored nationally by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions (MLP) and in conjunction locally with WQED Multimedia.
		They have recently been employed at the local level in New Haven, Conn. Deliberative Polls give elected officials and policy makers a more accurate and dynamic picture of public opinion, and they give participants a sense that they have a stake and voice in their government.
		Several local community organizations are partnering with the university and the library to stage the Deliberative Poll, including the World Affairs Council of Pittsburgh; the Pittsburgh chapter of the League of Women Voters; Global Connections of Pittsburgh; and Chatham College's Pennsylvania Women in Politics and Public Policy.
	www.cmu.edu /PR/releases04/040921_poll.html (824 words)

	OnlineDeliberationSeminarWiki: ChavalierLecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A deliberative pollandbrings the face-to-face democracy of the Athenian Assembly or the New England town meeting to the large-scale nation-state.
		deliberative opinion polls offer direct democracy among a group of politically equal participants who, as a statistical microcosm of the society, represent or stand for the deliberation of the whole.
		A deliberative opinion poll models what the electorate would think if, hypothetically, it could be immersed in an intensive deliberative process.
	rescomp.stanford.edu /~bshanks/cmu.pl/ChavalierLecture (413 words)

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