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This article analyzes the extent to which public administrators make use of expert knowledge (i.e., research or evaluation reports) when they prepare policy advice, and the extent to which politicians deliberate on the information provided to them by the administrators. The study is based on...
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How does transparency, a key feature of central bank design, affect the deliberation of monetary policymakers? We … appears to be a more informative deliberation process. …
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in policy and planning deliberation is likely to be reached if underlying layers of values and perceptions are considered … oriented deliberation would provide room for underlying sets of values and norms to enter the policy process more freely and …
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lacking sufficient insight into how emotions influence deliberation and learning. The first aim of this article is thus to …
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the deliberation of complex socio-economic issues and enables participants to think freely outside the realms of present …
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affects information aggregation at the deliberation and voting stages, leading to sharply different committee error rates than …
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Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...
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We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about the consequences of a project, communicate, and then vote onthe project. We examine under what conditions communication may increase the probability thatgood decisions are made....
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Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005144398
rationality and deliberation, especially the procedural theory of rationality advanced by Herbert Simon. We demonstrate how modern …, habits are will; we control them when we identify them and condition them through reflective deliberation. To clarify our … rejects calculative Turing machine rationality. We argue that a theory that can deal with deliberation regarding …
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