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PUBLICATIONS

The following is a list of academic publications, reports and articles that have been published or produced based on research conducted by Issues Deliberation Australia / America. If you would like to obtain any of the following items please contact us.

DELIBERATIVE POLLING - FINAL REPORTS

  • Australia Deliberates: Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia (September 07)
  • South Australia Deliberates: The Future of Our Parliament?
  • The ACT Deliberates: An ACT Bill of Rights?
  • Australia Deliberates: Reconciliation - Where from Here?
  • Australia Deliberates: A Republic - Yes or No?

DELIBERATIVE POLLING - BRIEFING DOCUMENTS

Australia Deliberates: Muslims and Non-Muslims in Australia
ISBN 0958189838














The ACT Deliberates: An ACT Bill of Rights? 
















Australia Deliberates: Reconciliation - Where from Here?
















Australia Deliberates: A Republic - Yes or No?

















DELIBERATIVE POLLING - MISCELLANEOUS

'Heuristics Versus "Encyclopedic" Information Gathering? Lessons From Deliberation Down Under'
By: Dr. Pamela Ryan

For Presentation to the 2002 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, USA

ABSTRACT
Evidence from the Australian Deliberative Poll research project, Australia Deliberates: Reconciliation - Where from Here? provides new insight into the ongoing debate in the political sciences about the role of heuristics versus comprehensive deliberation in public decision-making. The project was designed to examine voter opinions about relations between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians ("reconciliation") before and after participating in a Deliberative Poll on the complex national issue. Results indicted that prior to deliberations, the opinions of Coalition and Australian Labor Party supporters were starkly different and deeply divided about various aspects of reconciliation. This changed following participation in the deliberative process. Deliberation virtually negated the political divide, with post-deliberation opinions converging on key aspects of reconciliation.

'Information Effects in Referendum Voting: Evidence from the Australian Deliberative Poll'. 
By: Robert C. Luskin, James S. Fishkin, Ian McAllister, John Higley, and Pamela Ryan. 

Presented in various versions at the annual Joint Sessions of Workshops of the European Consortium for Political Research, Copenhagen, Denmark, April 14-19, 2000, at the triennial Congress of the International Political Science Association, Quebec, Canada, August 1-5, and at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2000.


ABSTRACT
Results from Australia Deliberates: A Republic, Yes or No? were in stark contrast to the results of the actual referendum held in Australian on November 6 1999. By participating in the deliberative process, the attending "Representative Australians" gained far more political knowledge than their less informed counterparts in the general population. They thought about the issue in greater depth, with more resources and over a longer time frame, than the average Australian voter. They discussed the republic much more, and with a much wider variety of their fellow citizens. They had the opportunity to have their questions answered by competing experts and advocates. They subsequently voted resoundingly for the proposed republic. With their increased knowledge, changed perceptions, and different reasoning, participants came to value having a republic with minimal change to the existing system.

'Deliberative Democracy and Social Choice Theory: Evidence from the Deliberative Opinion Polls'
By: Iain McLean, Christian List, James S. Fishkin, and Robert C. Luskin 

Presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington, DC, August 31-September 3, 2000.

ABSTRACT
As people get to know more about the subject of a collective decision, certain perspectives on this subject become more salient, and random and ill-formed opinions drop away, to be replaced by opinions structured by some underlying issue dimension(s). In short, deliberation induces preference structuration. This hypothesis was first suggested by Miller (1992) and proposed in more detail by Dryzek and List (1999). But equally, deliberation may fail to affect or even decrease structuration. For instance, instead of inducing convergence on a small set of well-defined issue-dimensions, discussion may, conceivably, exacerbate the complexity and intractable multidimensionality of a given collective decision problem. This is an empirical question that cannot be ultimately resolved by pure theorising. The present paper is an empirical study into this question. We study data from deliberative opinion conducted in Texas and Australia.

Deliberative Polling And The Inevitability Of Consensus: The Evidence
By: Dr. Pamela Ryan

Published May 15, 2002: ONLINE opinion:
http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/2002/may02/Ryan.htm 

ABSTRACT
Drawing from theory and research on individual and group decision-making, it is argued that the Deliberative Polling methodology builds into the decision-making process, counters to many of the common flaws inherent in typical human decision processes.

INTERNATIONAL ASSEMBLY RESOURCES

White Paper: Managing the Psychology of Fear and Terror - Strategies for Governments, Service Providers and Individuals
ISBN 0958189811
 
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