JAMES FISHKIN
/Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab
Author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?
Deliberative democracy is itself, when properly done, a kind of democracy that can speak to the interests of a community. And we need that all over the world. The three ills of democracy that I propose to address with this method, which we've perfected over the last several decades. Democracy is supposed to make some connection with the "will of the people." But how can we estimate the will of the people when everyone is trying to manipulate it?