Notion Of Deliberation Research Articles

DELIBERATIVE PLANNING ON VILLAGE POLICY MAKING IN PULAU RIMAU DISTRICT

This study aims to see the implementation of village development planning with the principles of deliberative democracy and assess the implementation of sub-district village development planning in Pulau Rimau District, Banyuasin Regency, South Sumatra. This study uses a descriptive research method with a qualitative approach. The data analysis techniques used by the researchers are interactive models from Miles and Huberman. This study indicates that the implementation of the principles of deliberative democracy in village development planning is weak because it still has problems in reporting and realizing the proposed results of village development planning. As well as community involvement that is not comprehensive in the process of implementing village development planning, this is contrary to the principles of deliberative democracy which prioritize optimizing the role of the community in the process. However, the notion of deliberation may be applied in representative democracy at the level, in other words, the process of forming or making policies by representatives of village communities is colored by the involvement of the people/constituents through a deliberative process. For this reason, special assistance from the government is needed to form competent village community representatives in the village development planning deliberation.
 Keywords: Deliberative, Village Development Planning, Public Participation.

Strengthening Deliberation in Business: Learning From Aristotle’s Ethics of Deliberation

Deliberation has faced criticism with regard to its application to business, on the basis that it can be misused to disseminate an ideology, divert attention from genuine debates, or strengthen the power of certain people. We suggest that Aristotle’s notion of deliberation can mitigate these ethical risks and help companies strengthen their deliberative practices. A comprehensive perspective based on Aristotelian deliberation reveals the relevance of (a) individual and collective deliberation, promoting a virtuous and meaningful reflection, free from ideological conditioning; (b) deliberation on ends and means that facilitates a transcendental and rooted reflection, thereby avoiding artificial debates; and (c) deliberation that is decisive and cooperative and thus prevents instrumentalization of deliberation by the strongest. We contribute to the discussion of the relationship between business and society by identifying the different steps in the deliberative process and promoting a dynamic perspective on deliberation.

Performance, the Arts, and Curricular Change

The need to improvise and take action as a practitioner draws on Schwab’s notion of deliberation and the Greek concept of poiesis. Inspired by an impromptu discussion with students at a computer summer camp, the author uses the worksof Sarason, Eisner, and Stenhouseto show how practitioner performance, student audience, educational inquiry, teacher as researcher, and curricular change are interrelated.

How strong is deliberation in EU intergovernmental decision making? Deliberation in the field of Justice and Home Affairs

ABSTRACTThe argument that intergovernmental decision making in the EU is not marked by bargaining alone and that occurrences of deliberation play an important role is gaining increasing recognition in the literature. In this article, we critically evaluate that claim by developing a notion of deliberation along Habermasian lines, in which deliberation is understood as a process that induces negotiating partners to change positions through argumentation. Based on this conceptualization, we explore to what extent and under which conditions deliberation is likely to occur in intergovernmental settings. To that end, we analyse decision-making on the proposal to give law enforcement authorities access to the Visa Information System. We conclude that a ‘thicker’ conceptualization yields relatively few instances of deliberation. Moreover, we identify a number of specific conditions, and interrelationships between them, that are conducive to this kind of deliberation.

El ágora digital: análisis de la relación entre deliberación democrática y nuevas redes digitales

Este artículo pretende un acercamiento teórico a la relación actual entre el impacto del producto social de las nuevas tecnologías de la comunicación (las nuevas redes digitales) y las condiciones de optimización de la deliberación en democracia, buscando dibujar la anatomía de esta relación, así como sus principales puntos de conflicto en lo que a transparencia y participación se refiere. Muestra que las nuevas redes digitales presentan rasgos con potencial para ejercer tanto un impacto positivo como negativo, existiendo, no obstante, ciertos factores diferenciales que hacen decantarse por concluir que el efecto de esta relación es netamente negativo. Concluye con una serie de recomendaciones acerca de cómo encarar los retos que se derivan de este análisis, apuntando a la necesidad de reconsiderar ciertas nociones acerca de la deliberación y la esfera pública.

Rawls on Dewey before the Dewey Lectures.

This article sheds light on John Rawls's views on John Dewey's philosophical temperament by investigating unpublished papers and lectures that Rawls wrote and delivered across the late 1940s, the 1950s, the 1960s, and the early 1970s. Moreover, the article shows that Rawls's rejection of Kant's dualisms predates by at least three decades the "Dewey Lectures" (1980) and that Dewey's notion of deliberation as "dramatic rehearsal in imagination" might have had an impact on Rawls's development of the notion of "reflective equilibrium" as a state of affairs that we strive to reach in ethical reflection.

Mediating the Black Pete discussion on Facebook: Slacktivism, flaming wars, and deliberation

In this paper we counter the idea that Facebook is a unified medium and stress the need to analyze the distinct qualities of its pages. We do so by exploring the Black Pete discussion on Facebook that ignited when United Nations investigator Verene Shepherd held a plea for the Dutch government to abolish the Saint Nicholas tradition, which features a black-face character, Black Pete. Both quantitative and qualitative methods are employed to interrogate how Facebook mediates this discussion in terms of divergent formatted spaces of participation. Reflecting on our findings against the notions of deliberation, slacktivism and flaming wars, we consider the particular features and potentials of different types of mediation.

Science to the people! (and experimental politics): Searching for the roots of participatory discourse in science and technology in the 1970s in France

The current conception of political participation in governmental institutions is deeply marked by the notions of deliberation and precaution. This normative conception of participatory politics neglects, backgrounds or disqualifies other participatory practices, in so far as they are not connected to deliberation and precaution. However, participation has not always been defined in such a restricted way: the current conception of participation is a product of the 1980s and 1990s. In this paper, the meaning ascribed to the notion of participation in the 1970s in France is explored through the study of discourses produced in three fields: the Science Policy Division of the OECD, the French radical science movement, and the emerging STS academic field. As is shown, some of the bases of the current notion of participation originate in the 1970s. Nevertheless, it is argued that in these years, the notion of participation has more to do with experimentation than with deliberation and precaution. Therefore, the conception of participation in the 1970s differs greatly from the current one. Methodologically, this paper combines tools offered by the social history of science and the French school of discourse analysis.

Dialogical Selves between Security and Insecurity

This article is concerned with the linkages between events occurring at the macro-level and psychological phenomena. In particular it seeks to elaborate on the possible effects of globalization, migration, and multiculturalism on groups' and individuals' subjective experiences of security. Special attention is given to the concept of dialogicality in the light of the challenges posed by an increasingly globalized world in which individuals have to relate to an increasing number of others. How migration and multiculturalism are affecting the securitization of dialogical selves is discussed, and the concepts of dialogicality, positioning, and interpretation are explicated in theory as well as in practice. As a result we introduce the concepts of reciprocity and relatedness in dialogical conceptions of self and use these concepts to link the three main sections of the article. In searching for viable solutions to conflict and tension between majority and minority populations, the notions of deliberation and cosmopolitics are introduced and explicated to encompass both structural and psychological solutions to such conflicts. Ontological, epistemological, and methodological as well as practical consequences of such inquiries are considered.

Communal deliberation: the art of learning schools

PurposeTo illuminate the importance of the communal deliberative process, as a form of collective thinking, in overcoming the growing complexities of schoolwork in uncertain and turbulent environments.Design/methodology/approachIntroduces the notion of deliberation as evolved from Dewey's moral theory, the essential phases and elements of deliberative activities and the principal's role in facilitating this communal process.FindingsProvides information on the stepping‐stones towards communal deliberation, while recognizing its major impediments.Originality/valueIn light of structural restructuring efforts that have not yielded significant effects in issues of teaching and learning, this paper offers the rhetorical process of communal deliberation as a means for developing schools that learn.

Risks and Responsibilities: Creating Dialogical Spaces in Northern Ireland

The idea that open dialogue is the key to transformative politics sounds straightforward. However, in a polity such as Northern Ireland where deep discord has intricate roots, an openness to difference is complex. I argue that dialogical spaces are created when people are prepared to engage in a risk-taking that conjoins self-disclosure with the vulnerability of being truly open to others; and are willing to bear the responsibility of mutually speaking with and listening to the plural other. First, I explain the relationship between identity, difference and political participation of women in Northern Ireland, examining alliance politics and solidarity. I offer suggestions for how difference, multiplicity and justice can be accommodated. Second, I extend beyond the specific context of Northern Ireland to evaluate the ability of feminist theories of deliberative democracy to facilitate dialogue across difference. I examine the importance of normative notions of deliberation, communication, narrative and competing needs. Third, I extrapolate from these theories the idea that the dynamic between listening and speaking creates a space to include diversity and commonality.