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...this area, and she’s looking at it from a very sophisticated standpoint—not just some kind of popular, populist approach, very theoretical.” Af-Am Department Chair Evelyn B. Higginbotham and Stanford’s Department of Communications Chair James S. Fishkin could not be reached for comment last night. While the department is poised to gain two familiar faces, Af-Am studies will be losing two newly added members. Rosen Professor of Music and Professor of African and African American Studies Kofi Agawu is returning to Princeton University after he was hired...
...Still, Zeguo's forum is novel even by Wenling's standards. Its format?from the way participants are selected to the way questionnaires are worded?adheres closely to the rules of the "Deliberative Poll," an approach to public consultation devised by James Fishkin, a professor at Stanford University. Fishkin originally developed his poll to measure and promote informed public opinion in the U.S., but he is in Zeguo at the behest of its Communist Party secretary, Jiang Zhaohua. The two met at a conference in Hangzhou in November and struck a deal in which Fishkin could test his model...
...interests of individual neighborhoods. By the afternoon, talk focuses on the good of the town. When the votes come in at day's end, environmental projects have risen to the top of the list, while flashier "prestige projects," including a park and some bridges, have dropped to the bottom. Fishkin is elated. "The public is smart," he says. "Under the right conditions, it's smart in China just like it's smart in Britain or smart in Bulgaria...
...their book, Ackerman and Fishkin marshal considerable evidence from past studies suggesting that introducing a national Deliberation Day along these lines may well produce powerful results. Fishkin, in particular, has long experience designing Deliberative Polls, which measure citizens’ knowledge of and opinions on key issues before and after they participate in a weekend of moderated deliberation. His research has shown that most participants not only demonstrate greater understanding of the issues after the weekend, but that that this increased knowledge leads a significant percentage, often between five and ten percent, to change their original opinions. If a Deliberation...
...realistic to imagine that we might see Deliberation Day introduced on a national scale? Ackerman and Fishkin believe it is. Alongside all the democratic theory and hard political science, the authors are careful to address the practical nuts-and-bolts problems certain to bedevil any potential implementation of their idea. For example, the cost of staging a national Deliberation Day is carefully budgeted to include everything from the $150 honorariums doled out to incentivize participation, to the cost of providing free bussing for all citizens to the designated sites. Altogether, the authors estimate that pulling off a Deliberation Day with...