This article studies multi-stakeholder initiatives (MSIs) as spaces for both deliberation and
contestation between constituencies with competing discourses and disputed values …

Habermas's conception of deliberative democracy combines two concepts—deliberation
and consensus—which, I argue, draw his theory in two opposite directions. While …

A medical information commons (MIC) is a networked data environment utilized for research
and clinical applications. At three deliberations across the US, we engaged 75 adults in two …

In an age of rising groupthink, reactionary populism, social conformity, and democratic
deficit, political judgment in modern society has reached a state of crisis. In The Specter of …

Deliberative democracy has been castigated by those who regard it as exclusive and elitist
because of its failure to take into account a range of structural inequalities existing within …

This article examines the legitimacy attached to different types of multi-stakeholder data
partnerships occurring in the context of sustainable development. We develop a framework …

Leadership, corporate responsibility and management ethics underline the human centered
paradigm in the complex world of today. One major issue in management is impact on …

The growing emphasis on citizens and private and public stakeholders within smart cities
demands approaches where these actors are seen as participants in the decision-making …

Local advisory councils (LACs) are defined as collegial bodies that are anchored in local
communities (representing public institutions, NGOs, social groups, business, and …

In this study, we investigate peer talk in consensus-oriented first-grade classrooms. Earlier
research has shown that the quality of argumentation improves when students argue to …