Deliberating for Democracy: James Fishkin

July 24th, 2025

”Assess the will of the people and make it consequential.”

We discuss deliberative polling as a way to assess the will of the people and then to make it consequential. This is what democracy is all about.

James Fishkin is the Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab at Stanford University and the author of Can Deliberation Cure the Ills of Democracy?

Your civic action toolkit recommendations from James are:

  1. Question your own beliefs and assumptions

  2. Learn to listen to people whom you would not normally talk to

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Credits:

Host: Mila Atmos 

Guest: James Fishkin

Executive Producer: Mila Atmos

Producer: Zack Travis

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