Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at
least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785 …

Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world, our
knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented …

We study the effects of deliberation on collective decisions. In a series of experiments, we
vary groups' preference distributions (between common and conflicting interests) and the …

What are the effects of deliberation about legal and political issues by like-minded people?
This Essay reports the results of an experimental investigation involving sixty-three citizens …

This Article proposes a theory of judicial power that addresses two difficult and seemingly
disparate questions about judicial review. First, why do political actors, such as presidents …

Modern public law is strongly devoted to the notion that public officials should be held"
accountable" for their decisions. 1 This is not surprising because the legitimacy of …

The Administrative Procedure Act of 1946 (APA or the" Act")'is one of the most important
statutes in the United States Code. The Constitution assumes that administrative agencies …

ON November 6, 2012, with millions of their compatriots, citizens in the North River area of
Chicago headed to the ballots.'Like other voters throughout the city, the state, and the nation …

A theory of deliberation must provide a plausible account both of individuals' choices to
speak or to listen and of how they reinterpret their own views in the aftermath of deliberation …

One of the ascendant understandings of democracy in contemporary political theory is that
democratic societies ought to be deliberative. 1 The precise requirements for" deliberative …