Deliberation Day is a proposed holiday to promote the use of deliberative democracy, and would supplement or replace Presidents' Day in the United States. The proposal for the holiday was formulated by American legal scholar Bruce Ackerman and political scientist James Fishkin, who laid out the rationale for their proposal in their 2005 book, Deliberation Day.[1] On Deliberation Day, all registered voters would be invited to participate in public community discussions about the upcoming elections, and would be given financial compensation for their involvement in order to encourage the participation of those who are less interested in politics.[2][non-primary source needed][3][better source needed][4][non-primary source needed]
Reception
editWriter and activist Naomi Wolf endorsed the idea in 2008, citing studies that describe 3 of every 4 participants finding their deliberative experience very valuable.[5]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Bruce Ackerman; James S. Fishkin (January 2004). Deliberation Day. Yale University Press; September 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10964-1.
- ^ Ackerman, Bruce. "Legal Affairs". Legal Affairs. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
- ^ Zasky, Jason. "Deliberation Day". Failuremag.com. Archived from the original on October 14, 2012. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - ^ Ackerman, Bruce (2004-03-10). "Deliberation Day | Center for American Progress". Americanprogress.org. Retrieved 2012-09-20.
- ^ Wolf, Naomi (16 September 2008). Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries. Simon and Schuster. p. 178 - 180. ISBN 978-1-4165-9056-9. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
Further reading
edit- Bruce Ackerman; James S. Fishkin (January 2004). Deliberation Day. Yale University Press; September 2005. ISBN 978-0-300-10964-1. Retrieved 20 September 2012.
- Schkade, David, Sunstein, Cass R. and Hastie, Reid, What Happened on Deliberation Day? (June 2006). U Chicago Law & Economics, Olin Working Paper No. 298; AEI-Brookings Joint Center Working Paper No. 06-19. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=911646 or doi:10.2139/ssrn.911646 Mirror at https://web.archive.org/web/20120619165424/http://www.law.uchicago.edu/files/files/298.pdf
- Ackerman, Bruce, "Deliberation Day" (2002). Faculty Scholarship Series. Paper 162. http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/fss_papers/162
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