Would more deliberation improve policy on the issue you're working on this semester? Why or why not? What are the strenghts and weaknesses of a deliberative approach? Would a system like the ones in the Brazilian examples be effective? Would deliberative polling be effective?
The whole week we spent discussing deliberation I had a really hard time grapsing the concept for my issue. I feel as though it is constantly deliberated, but the policy just isn't coming. So would more improve it? I don't really know, I mean how much more deliberation can there be? Deliberation is an issue in itself because not everyone is always heard, and not one person can just make change happen over night. Taking us back earlier in the semester deliberation isn't successful unless we gather the masses, but how do we make the masses care? The only way I could see deliberation helping solve my issue is if it was based around a "how can we fix this" type discussion, where the end means was to have a policy to implement.
The strengths of having a deliberative approach is that it allows for more people to have input and not necessarily always from those that are experts in the area. Another strength is that it allows for multiple ideas to be floating around and each of those could come together as one for a policy. Deliberation allows for a diverse discussion and solution with multiple perspectives. On the other hand, it's very hard to control conversation, who sets the agenda? Is the loudest person always going to be in charge? Deliberation fails to allow for a solution sometimes, it almost doesn't usually have a point. We somehow find ourselves going around in circles discussing topics, discussing in a way to inform others or say how we feel about the situation but never stating our own solutions to it, so is it really productive? Sometimes yes, other times no. I've found most deliberation processes to be quite unproductive, which is why it's hard for me to say that I think this could help my issue.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
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