Center for Deliberative Democracy
The Center for Deliberative Democracy, housed in the Department of Communication at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.
News & Events
- A California experiment in democracy, San Francisco Chronicle
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What’s Next California? Final Report
View complete results from California's first statewide Deliberative Poll®. -
A people's tool for democratic reform, SFGate - The Opinion Shop
Deliberative Polling® in California could result in a set of people’s initiatives that would go before voters for approval or rejection. -
SPUR Evening Forum: What’s Next California? The Power of Deliberative Polling
A panel of three key organizers of the project — James Fishkin of the Center for Deliberative Democracy at Stanford University, Zabrae Valentine of California Forward and Lenny Mendonca of McKinsey & Company — will discuss the project process and findings. The event will include a screening of the PBS NewsHour-produced documentary about the project, narrated by Judy Woodruff. Tuesday, January 3, 2012, 6pm. - PBS Newshour broadcast features the What's Next California? Deliberative Poll®
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How to Fix California’s Democracy Crisis
James Fishkin's Op-Ed article in the New York Times discusses reforms supported by participants in the What's Next California? Deliberative Poll® -
Process based on Deliberative Polling® a winner of the McKinsey/Harvard Business Review M-Prize in the Management 2.0 Challenge
- Social technologies on the front line: The Management 2.0 M-Prize winners, McKinsey Quarterly
- Are Radical Innovations a thing of the past?, Financial Times
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Deliberative Polling® in Macao
On Dec 4, 2011, a Deliberative Poll will be held in Macao on the subject of the Press Law and the Visual-audio Broadcasting Act. -
By the People: What's Next California?
View the PBS Newshour documentary on the What's Next California Deliberative Poll® - Statewide initiatives may result from Stanford-led 'deliberative polling', Stanford Report
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What's Next California? The Informed Voters's Path to Political Reform
James Fishkin announces the results and discusses the first statewide Deliberative Poll® at the Commonwealth Club of California -
What's Next California? Overview and Results
California's first ever statewide Deliberative Poll® on governance reform focused on four issue areas: The statewide initiative process, legislative representation, local government, and tax and fiscal policy. What do California voters think should be done to fix the state when they focus on the substance of the issues? “What’s Next California?” offers some clear answers. -
Deliberative Democracy and the Virtues of Democratic Citizenship
View James Fishkin's presentation at the University of Chicago's "New Science of Virtues" meeting. -
California Voters Ask: What Happened to Our State?, PBS Newshour
Judy Woodruff reports on the California Deliberative Poll®. After listening to Californians talk about how to make their state government work better, her overriding impression was that they want their leaders to work together, to compromise when necessary, and to solve problems.
Deliberative Polling®
- Deliberative Polling®: Toward a Better-Informed Democracy
An executive summary of Deliberative Polling® to date, including the results of polls conducted in England, Australia, Denmark and the United States.
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Deliberative Polling®
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Deliberative Polling®, developed by Professor James S. Fishkin, is a technique which combines deliberation in small group discussions with scientific random sampling to provide public consultation for public policy and for electoral issues. A number of Deliberative Polls have been conducted in various countries around the world, including Britain, Australia, Denmark, and in the US, some national and some local.