Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

In our modern world of propaganda, social media enclaves, misinformation, and manipulation, the connection between 'the will of the people' and political action has broken down, political divisions are becoming increasingly intractable, and democracies are growing ever more ungovernable.Democracy is in crisis. In Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?, James S.Fishkin argues that deliberative democracy can have surprisingly positive effects on all of these problems and charts a unique path to fixing them with his method of Deliberative Polling.After decades of applying and perfecting the methods of deliberative democracy in countries all over the world, this book synthesizes the results of 150 applications and shows how the method can be applied to resolve many of democracy's seemingly intractable challenges.It can clarify the public will and depolarize our divisions.It can be applied to major national and local decisions, it can spread in schools, it can be used by corporations,