Events and Symposia
SPUR Evening Forum
What’s Next California? The Power of Deliberative Polling
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
6:00 pm
What’s Next California? — the first state-wide deliberative poll in California — was conducted in 2011 and covered four basic areas: the initiative process, the Legislature, state/local relations and tax/fiscal issues. Thirty proposals were deliberated by a statewide scientific sample of 412 participants. Their conclusions offered many surprises. 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.
United Kingdom
The Power 2010 Deliberative Poll took place January 9th - 10th in central London. A scientific sample of the UK were brought together to discuss the proposals for democratic reform submitted by members of the public, producing a shortlist to be put to the public vote.
Japan
First Japanese Deliberative Poll on Federalism Reform
Chile
Universidad Diego Portales, Nuevas tendencias para medir la opinión pública
La encuesta deliberativa es un instrumento de medición diseñado por la Universidad de Stanford y será presentado por Alice Siu, Subdirectora del Centro de Estudios Deliberativos de dicha casa de estudios.
European Union
Europolis
EuroPolis brought hundreds of European citizens to Brussels to debate immigration, climate change, and the EU policymaking process. What kind of Parliament would Europeans elect if they knew, thought, and talked much more about the issues? An experiment conducted in Brussels gives a picture of how the votes for Parliament might be different.
By the People
Dialogues in Democracy: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness
By the People—through its local public television and community organization partners-- will host Citizen Deliberations in 11 communities around the country focused on the rights and responsibilities of citizens, as they relate to issues of local importance. The local deliberations are accompanied by a national Online Deliberative Poll exploring 21st century citizenship in America.