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Deliberative processes in practice

Smith, Cobi; Rowe, Gene

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Abstract

This chapter discusses the use of deliberative processes in policy making about bioethics, drawing more broadly on deliberative democracy theory and health policy. We discuss who runs deliberative processes and why, but are particularly concerned with what conditions are needed for deliberative processes to be successful. We note uncertainties and tensions that may be inevitable in meeting these conditions. Fairness and accountability emerge as themes in which these conditions can be grouped. For accountability in particular, understanding the pol-icy context and motives for deliberative processes are essential to their evaluation. ; Australian Research Council Discovery Project Grant "Big Picture Bioethics: Policy-making and Liberal Democracy" DP0556068.

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