Stanford professor James Fishkin has been making the case for deliberative democracy since I was an undergraduate in Palo Alto close to 20 years ago. Over decades of work on deliberative polling and ...

In September 2019, 523 Americans traveled to Dallas, Texas, for an experiment called “America in One Room.” The gathering was designed to test a theory: Could representative citizens deliberate ...

University campuses across North America are increasingly polarized places—both for university communities themselves and for the public at large. In the last year, protests over the Gaza war have led ...

For more than 30 years, Stanford political scientist James Fishkin has been exploring and demonstrating the capacity of small, representative "mini-publics" to make thoughtful meaningful political ...

As it scrambled to pass a continuing resolution and avoid a government shutdown at the end of 2024, the 118th Congress ended much as it began—with serious doubts as to whether America’s legislature ...

Wrestling with a tough decision? It might be better to consider more than your gut, according to new research from Rutgers Business School. In a paper published in the Journal of Business Ethics, ...