Deliberative Townhalls add four key design features to the traditional town hall meeting: 1) recruiting a representative sample of constituents, 2) neutral, independent third-party moderation, 3) focus on a single issue, & 4) non-partisan background information in advance.
METHOD
Deliberative Townhalls
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- Face-to-Face, Online, or Both?
- Both
- General Type of Method
- Deliberative and dialogic process
- Long-term civic bodies
- Typical Purpose
- Develop the civic capacities of individuals, communities, and/or civil society organizations
- Make, influence, or challenge decisions of government and public bodies
- Collections
- Citizens Voices & Values on Covid-19
- Open to All or Limited to Some?
- Open to All With Special Effort to Recruit Some Groups
- Recruitment Method for Limited Subset of Population
- Stratified Random Sample
- Number of Participants
- Large groups
- Types of Interaction Among Participants
- Discussion, Dialogue, or Deliberation
- Ask & Answer Questions
- Listen/Watch as Spectator
- Facilitation
- Yes
- Decision Methods
- Opinion Survey
- If Voting
- Preferential Voting
- Scope of Implementation
- Regional
- Level of Polarization This Method Can Handle
- Polarized
- Level of Complexity This Method Can Handle
- High Complexity