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  1. When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation.James Fishkin - 2009 - Oxford University Press.
    This book describes a new method of consulting the public that has been tried successfully around the world. The book combines the theory of democracy with actual practice. Fishkin lays out a theory of "deliberative democracy" and shows with practical examples, how it can be realized.
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  2. (1 other version)Deliberation day.Bruce Ackerman & James S. Fishkin - 2002 - Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2):129–152.
  3. Deliberation, single-peakedness, and the possibility of meaningful democracy: evidence from deliberative polls.Christian List, Robert Luskin, James Fishkin & Iain McLean - 2013 - Journal of Politics 75 (1):80–95.
    Majority cycling and related social choice paradoxes are often thought to threaten the meaningfulness of democracy. But deliberation can prevent majority cycles – not by inducing unanimity, which is unrealistic, but by bringing preferences closer to single-peakedness. We present the first empirical test of this hypothesis, using data from Deliberative Polls. Comparing preferences before and after deliberation, we find increases in proximity to single-peakedness. The increases are greater for lower versus higher salience issues and for individuals who seem to have (...)
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    Introduction.James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett - 2002 - Journal of Political Philosophy 10 (2):125–128.
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  5. The Limits of Obligation.James S. Fishkin - 1984 - Ethics 94 (2):327-329.
     
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    Debating Deliberative Democracy.James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.) - 2003 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Debating Deliberative Democracy explores the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the significance of voting and majority rule in deliberative arrangements. Investigates the nature and value of deliberation, the feasibility and desirability of consensus on contentious issues, the implications of institutional complexity and cultural diversity for democratic decision making, and the significance of voting and majority rule in deliberative arrangements. (...)
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    Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family.James S. Fishkin - 1983 - Yale University Press.
    Three common assumptions of both liberal theory and political debate are the autonomy of the family, the principle of merit, and equality of life chances. Fishkin argues that even under the best conditions, commitment to any two of these principles precludes the third._“A brief survey and brilliant critique of contemporary liberal political theory…. A must for all political theory or public policy collections.” –_Choice_ “The strong points of Fishkin’s book are many. He raises provocative issues, locates them within a broader (...)
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  8. (1 other version)Justice, Equal Opportunity, and the Family.James Fishkin - 1984 - Law and Philosophy 3 (2):321-327.
     
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    The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society.James S. Fishkin - 1992 - Yale University Press.
    People around the world are agitating for democracy and individual rights, but there is no consensus on a theory of liberal democracy that might guide them. What are the first principles of a just society? What political theory should shape public policy in such a society? In this book, James S. Fishkin offers a new basis for answering these questions by proposing the ideal of a "self-reflective society"—a political culture in which citizens are able to decide their own fate through (...)
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    Deliberative democracy.James S. Fishkin - 2002 - In Robert L. Simon (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 221–238.
    The prelims comprise: The Athenian Solution The Filter The Mirror The “Mob” The Apparent Conundrum Referendum Democracy versus Deliberation Modern Deliberative Microcosms The Role of Representatives Notes Bibliography.
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    Introduction.James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett - 2003 - In James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 1–6.
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  12. Experimenting with a democratic ideal: Deliberative polling and public opinion.James Fishkin & Robert Luskin - 2005 - Acta Politica 40 (3):284–98.
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    Disaggregating deliberation's effects: an experiment within a deliberative poll.Cynthia Farrar, James S. Fishkin, Donald P. Green, Christian List, Robert C. Luskin & Elizabeth Levy Paluck - 2010 - British Journal of Political Science 40 (2):333-347.
    Using data from a randomized field experiment within a Deliberative Poll, this paper examines deliberation’s effects on both policy attitudes and the extent to which ordinal rankings of policy options approach single-peakedness (a help in avoiding cyclical majorities). The setting was New Haven, Connecticut, and its surrounding towns; the issues were airport expansion and revenue sharing – the former highly salient, the latter not at all. Half the participants deliberated revenue sharing, then the airport; the other half the reverse. This (...)
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  14. (1 other version)Liberty Versus Equal Opportunity.James S. Fishkin - 1987 - Social Philosophy and Policy 5 (1):32-48.
    Liberalism has often been viewed as a continuing dialogue about the relative priorities between liberty and equality. When the version of equality under discussion requires equalization of outcomes, it is easy to see how the two ideals might conflict. But when the version of equality requires only equalization of opportunities, the conflict has been treated as greatly muted since the principle of equality seems so meager in its implications. However, when one looks carefully at various versions of equal opportunity and (...)
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    Beyond polling alone: The quest for an informed public.James S. Fishkin - 2006 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 18 (1-3):157-165.
    Converse's seminal 1964 article explored three crucial limitations of public opinion as it is revealed in conventional polls: information levels, belief systems, and nonattitudes. These limitations are significant from the standpoint of democratic theory, but it is possible to design forms of public consultation and of social‐science research that will reveal what public opinion might be like if these limitations were somehow overcome. Deliberative Polling is an effort to explore the contours of such a counterfactual public opinion—one that is more (...)
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    Random Assemblies for Lawmaking? Prospects and Limits.James S. Fishkin - 2018 - Politics and Society 46 (3):359-379.
    A randomly selected microcosm of the people can usefully play an official role in the lawmaking process. However, there are serious issues to be confronted if such a random sample were to take on the role of a full-scale, full-time second chamber. Some skeptical considerations are detailed. There are also advantages to short convenings of such a sample to take on some of the roles of a second chamber. This article provides a response to the skeptical considerations. Precedents from ancient (...)
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    Beyond Subjective Morality.James S. Fishkin - 1986 - Noûs 20 (1):87-92.
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  18. Considered opinions: deliberative polling in Britain.Robert Luskin, James Fishkin & Roger Jowell - 2002 - British Journal of Political Science 32 (3):455–87.
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    Bargaining, Justice, and Justification: Towards Reconstruction: JAMES S. FISHKIN.James S. Fishkin - 1988 - Social Philosophy and Policy 5 (2):46-64.
    Part I of this essay will be devoted to Gauthier's principle of minimax relative concession. Part II will focus, more generally, on the variety of possible strategies available to liberal theory. In Part I, I will argue that the principle of minimax relative concession does not define “essential justice” as Gauthier claims. In Part II, I will argue that the difficulties facing Gauthier's strategy are common to other strategies of die same general kind. I will close by suggesting what I (...)
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  20. Deliberative polling.James Fishkin - 2018 - In André Bächtiger, Jane Mansbridge, John Dryzek & Mark Warren (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. Oxford University Press. pp. 315–28.
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  21. Deliberative Democracy and Constitutions.James S. Fishkin - 2011 - Social Philosophy and Policy 28 (1):242-260.
    This paper examines the potential role of deliberative democracy in constitutional processes of higher law-making, either for the founding of constitutions or for constitutional change. It defines deliberative democracy as the combination of political equality and deliberation and situates this form of democracy in contrast to a range of alternatives. It then considers two contrasting processes—elite deliberation and plebiscitary mass democracy (embodied in referenda) as approaches to higher law-making that employ deliberation without political equality or political equality without deliberation. It (...)
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    (1 other version)Principles of Legislation: The Uses of Political Autority.James Fishkin - 1980 - Mind 89 (355):472-474.
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    Symposia papers: Towards a new social contract.James S. Fishkin - 1990 - Noûs 24 (2):217-226.
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    Knowledge and support for AI in the public sector: a deliberative poll experiment.Sveinung Arnesen, Troy Saghaug Broderstad, James S. Fishkin, Mikael Poul Johannesson & Alice Siu - forthcoming - AI and Society:1-17.
    We are on the verge of a revolution in public sector decision-making processes, where computers will take over many of the governance tasks previously assigned to human bureaucrats. Governance decisions based on algorithmic information processing are increasing in numbers and scope, contributing to decisions that impact the lives of individual citizens. While significant attention in the recent few years has been devoted to normative discussions on fairness, accountability, and transparency related to algorithmic decision-making based on artificial intelligence, less is known (...)
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    Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political Philosophy.Abraham Edel, Stuart Hampshire & James S. Fishkin - 1985 - Hastings Center Report 15 (2):46.
    Book reviewed in this article: Morality and Conflict. By Stuart Hampshire. Beyond Subjective Morality: Ethical Reasoning and Political Philosophy. By James S. Fishkin.
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    (2 other versions)Books in Review.James S. Fishkin - 1983 - Political Theory 11 (1):137-140.
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    Comment on Gibbard Utilitarianism Versus Human Rights.James Fishkin - 1984 - Social Philosophy and Policy 1 (2):103.
    Rather than respond to Gibbard, point by point, I will comment on what I take to be the general spirit of his argument. The old consensus on some form or another of utilitarianism, a consensus that dominated discussions in moral and political theory only a few years ago, has now largely evaporated before the heat of distributional objections founded on justice, the “separateness of persons,” and other concerns for the severe sacrifices that utilitarianism might require of some for the sake (...)
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    Can there be a neutral theory of justice?James S. Fishkin - 1982 - Ethics 93 (2):348-356.
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    Deliberative Public Consultation via Deliberative Polling: Criteria and Methods.James S. Fishkin - 2021 - Hastings Center Report 51 (S2):19-24.
    This article poses the problem of public consultation on contested policies involving new technologies and competing values or value‐laden goals. It argues that Deliberative Polling, an approach developed by the author, can be usefully employed to engage representative samples to deliberate in depth in controlled experiments so as to yield a picture of the public's considered judgments. It also argues from recent experience that such consultations can be cost effectively conducted online with stratified random samples. It draws on examples from (...)
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    (1 other version)Introduction: Population & political theory.James S. Fishkin & Robert E. Goodin - 2005 - Journal of Political Philosophy 13 (4):373–376.
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    Introduction to the symposium.James S. Fishkin - 1981 - Ethics 91 (3):353-356.
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    Justice Between Generations.James S. Fishkin - 1982 - Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 4:24-33.
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    Justifying Liberty.James S. Fishkin - 1985 - Bowling Green Studies in Applied Philosophy 7:176-191.
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    (1 other version)Obligations Beyond Borders.James S. Fishkin - 1985 - Tulane Studies in Philosophy 33:9-20.
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    Population and Political Theory.James S. Fishkin & Robert E. Goodin (eds.) - 2010 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Part of the highly regarded Philosophy, Politics and Society series, this text is an important resource for political philosophers who wish to know about population policy, population specialists interested in political theory, and public ...
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    The complexity of simple justice.James S. Fishkin - 1988 - Ethics 98 (3):464-471.
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    (1 other version)Why Deliberative Polling? Reply to Gleason.James S. Fishkin - 2011 - Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 23 (3):393-403.
    ABSTRACT Contrary to Laurel Gleason's assertions, Deliberative Polling among random samples is not a process that is dominated by “experts” or by certain categories of deliberator; it produces genuine gains among the participants in knowledge of information that has been verified as true and relevant; it does not cause ideological polarization; and it is not intended as a substitute for, rather than a supplement to, deliberation on the part of the general public.
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    Political Theory Without Borders.Robert E. Goodin & James S. Fishkin - 2015 - Wiley-Blackwell.
    Political Theory Without Borders offers a comprehensive survey of the issues that have shaped political theory in the wake of social and environmental globalization. Focuses on specific questions that arise from issues of global spillovers like climate change and pollution, international immigration, and political intervention abroad Includes chapters written by some of the best new scholars working in the field today, along with key texts from some of the most well-known scholars of previous generations Illustrates how the classics concerns of (...)
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    Defending deliberation: a comment on Ian Shapiro's The State of Democratic Theory.James Fishkin - 2005 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 (1):71-78.
    This comment responds to Shapiro?s State of Democratic Theory. First, it argues that the map of democratic possibilities in the book, dividing forms of democracy into aggregative and deliberative, conflates and obscures important democratic alternatives. Second, I argue that one of the possibilities this map obscures, deliberation with aggregation, avoids the critique Shapiro directs at deliberative democracy. While some of his criticisms are appropriate to other categories, they do not apply to this one. Third, I argue that the empirical work (...)
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    Donald R. C. Reed, Following Kohlberg: Liberalism and the Practice of Democratic Community:Following Kohlberg: Liberalism and the Practice of Democratic Community.James S. Fishkin - 2000 - Ethics 110 (4):868-870.
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    The convergence argument for welfare rights: Some divergences.James S. Fishkin - 1991 - Journal of Social Philosophy 22 (3):38-41.
  42. Philosophy, Politics and Society, Sixth Series: Justice between Age Groups and Generations.Peter Laslett, James S. Fishkin & Heyd David - 1993 - Environmental Values 2 (2):187-188.
     
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  43. Deliberative distortions? Homogenization, polarization, and domination in small group discussions.Robert Luskin, Gaurav Sood, James Fishkin & Kyu Hahn - 2022 - British Journal of Political Science:1–21.
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    Review of Peter Singer: Practical Ethics[REVIEW]James Fishkin - 1981 - Ethics 91 (4):665-666.
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    Review of Peter Laslett and James S. Fishkin: Justice Between Age Groups and Generations.[REVIEW]Peter Laslett & James S. Fishkin - 1993 - Ethics 104 (1):184-186.
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    Review of Michael D. Bayles: Principles of Legislation: The Uses of Political Authority[REVIEW]James Fishkin - 1980 - Ethics 90 (4):618-618.
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    Book ReviewBruce Ackerman,. We the People: Transformations. Vol. 2. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 515. $29.95. [REVIEW]James Fishkin - 2001 - Ethics 111 (3):614-617.
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    (1 other version)Book ReviewsIan Shapiro,. The Moral Foundations of Politics.New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. 304. $32.00 ; $19.00. [REVIEW]James S. Fishkin - 2007 - Ethics 117 (2):381-383.
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    Vers une démocratie délibérative : L'expérimentation d'un idéal : Extrait de Citizen competence and democratic institutions, sous la direction de Stephen L. Elkin et de Karol Edward Soltan, Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999, chapitre XII, p. 279-290. [REVIEW]James S. Fishkin & Dominique Reynie - 2001 - Hermes 31:207.
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    Review of Virginia Held: Rights and goods: justifying social action[REVIEW]James S. Fishkin - 1987 - Ethics 97 (2):473-474.
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