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

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 ...

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 ...

Municipal councils rarely dominate national headlines, yet they make decisions that shape our daily lives more directly than any other level of government. From land use to transit, policing to public ...