Jerin Choudhury

Fishkin introduced the Deliberative Poll to show the shortcomings of public opinion. He refers that   the leaders are not informed and they have lack of background knowledge. Therefore, the citizens stay uninformed about the issue. However, deliberative polling is designed to figure out citizen’s reflection on a specific issue where citizens will acquire sufficient background knowledge to interact with the policy makers to understand   various policy positions

Following is the strengths and weakness of deliberative poll:

Strengths:

Deliberative Poll create diverse group of participants. Furthermore, it create opportunities to get feedback from experts and followers. There is   specific time range for deliberation. Deliberation is a mixture of representative sampling, sample size, and detailed post-deliberation assessment. However, these rewards also have some drawbacks.

By contrast, the Deliberative Poll knocks   only the influence on education, discussion, and reflection in a short period of time.

If the Deliberative Poll   is more organized, citizen will have chance to interact with experts and partisans.

It is very good idea for experts and partisans to   cross examine one another at the time of hearing testimony.

Weakness:

# The   common critique for deliberative poll is that the final outcome from the survey data is sometimes flawed.

#sometimes the survey   data is not exact   because the outcome of the data comes from various polling event .Also, the judgment of the participants can impact the deliberative poll.

# The Deliberative Poll, does not provide enough time for face-to-face deliberation. Citizens need time to work through the nuances of issues and adequately hear each other’s views.

In the Deliberative Poll, face to face deliberation time is very short and limited. Therefore, citizens sometimes unable to understand the important element of the issue.