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Challenging extreme claims for truth: How to deliberate the open, pluralist society with monist thinkers
Imagine we are dealing with a person with a rather monistic mindset, thus believing, assuming or hoping that all questions...
Charles Edward Lindblom, In Memoriam
On January 30, 2018, Charles Lindblom died at the age of 100. His ideas on, among others, policy making processes...
How to deliberate fundamental values? Notes from Brandenburg on our approach.
People hardly ever change their mind. The more they feel forced to justify themselves, the more they feel questioned, criticized...
How Postmodernism Advanced Populism: An Inside Story From The Netherlands
There are many factors that explain the upheaval of populism. Postmodernism is one of them. In the Netherlands, certainly the...
Deliberation Against Populism: Reconnecting Radicalizing Citizens In East Germany & Elsewhere
In the deliberative project “Deliberation against Populism” we organized two events with citizens from Brandenburg, Germany, to discuss the problems that...
Taking people seriously: a new approach for countering populism and furthering integration
In our deliberative democracy and integration projects we treat our participants – natives as well as migrants – as citizens, able...
Rural Regeneration by Connecting Bigger Social Solutions
Complex social issues are often more easily resolved when they are connected up with other societal problems. Habitual approaches to...
How To Debate Values In A Diverse Europe
We need to talk. We need to talk about fundamental concepts like democracy, ethical and political pluralism, tolerance, equality and...
Debating Values & Identity With Newcomers & European Natives
In 2015, roughly 1,1 million refugees came to Germany. About 428,500 of these people are Syrians. Refugees from Iraq (13%) and...
Do People Know What They Want? Social Scientific Responses
Market and liberal democracy are both based on the assumption that individuals are the best possible referees of their personal...
Lessons From Political Science On Participation & Democratization
It is often assumed in social and political science that citizens should participate more in political structures and processes aimed...
What Do Education Scholars Know?
Some time ago Martin Spiewak stated in the German quality-weekly Die Zeit that an awful lot of undisputed knowledge existed about the best...