Göran Cars Discusses 'Deliberation, Representation, Equity'
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Date: 24/01/2017

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Göran Cars Discusses 'Deliberation, Representation, Equity: Research Approaches, Tools and Algorithms for Participatory Processes'

What can we learn about the development of public interaction in e-democracy from a drama delivered by mobile headphones to an audience standing around a shopping center in a Stockholm suburb?

In democratic societies there is widespread acknowledgment of the need to incorporate citizens’ input in decision-making processes in more or less structured ways. But participatory decision making is balancing on the borders of inclusion, structure, precision and accuracy. To simply enable more participation will not yield enhanced democracy, and there is a clear need for more elaborated elicitation and decision analytical tools.