Applying Deliberative Democracy in Africa: Uganda’s First Deliberative Polls

Practical experiments with deliberative democracy, instituted with random samples of the public, have had success in many countries. But this approach has never before been tried in Sub-Saharan Africa. Reflecting on the first two applications in Uganda, we apply the same criteria for success commonl...

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Published in:	Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Mass.), 2017-07, Vol.146 (3), p.140-154
Main Authors:	Fishkin, James S., Mayega, Roy William, Atuyambe, Lyn, Tumuhamye, Nathan, Ssentongo, Julius, Siu, Alice, Bazeyo, William
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Application Attitudes Deliberative democracy Democracy Demographics Demography Education policy Experiments Inequality Literacy Polarization Policy making Polls & surveys Quantitative analysis Rural communities
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