Deliberative Democracy

Introduction:

 It is a  thought in the political theory which claims that political decision should be

the product of the fair and reasonable discussions among the citizens. It is all about placing the people closer to the affairs of government and decision making. It is a form of democracy in which deliberation is central to decision making. It adopts the elements of both consensus decision making and majority rule. Rather than thinking of political decisions as the aggregate of the citizen's preferences, it claims that citizen should arrive at political decisions through reason and the collection of competing arguments and viewpoints.

Strengths:

1)     It is more easily able to incorporate scientific opinion and base policy on outputs of ongoing research.

2)     It tend to generate the ideal conditions of impartiality, rationality and knowledge of the relevant facts.

3)     It allows participants to deduce what is morally correct.

4)     It tend to produce outcome which is better than other forms of democracy.

5)     The debates arising from deliberative democracy are much more civil, collaborative and evidence based than the other debates.