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James Fishkin
is Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication, Director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy, Professor of Communication, and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Fishkin has been a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge, as well as a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, and a Guggenheim Fellow.
He has written numerous books, including The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995). He is best known for developing Deliberative Polling, a method of finding the effects of making a random sample of citizens better informed on issues of public interest.Eurozine Articles
Putting all of Europe in one room
The creator of Deliberative Polling looks at the possibilities for bringing Europeans from all 25 member states together, informing them on issues of public importance, and encouraging them to discuss and question these issues. [more]
18.08.2005