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Deliberative Polling process

October 21, 2015Uncategorizedjc111571

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.

Filibuster

October 15, 2015Uncategorizedjc111571

Jerin Chooudhury

The notion of filibuster was simple.The Senate is currently is planning to modify the filibuster process. The filibuster is not the best feature. Following is the reasons

: 1. unconstitutional:

The filibuster seems unconstitutional because it is not mentioned in the original constitution written by Alexander Hamilton. The Senate was didn’t recognize the filibuster which created a gap and the senator tried to abolish the filibuster since 1841.

undemocratic:The Senate is inherently and hopelessly undemocratic and filibuster is democratically imbalanced.
Collape the Senate:Filibuster is well documented and universally understood but it breakdown the senate .
And it will bring down the other two branches along with it:Senior judicial and executive branch nominations must be permitted by the Senate and are subject to the filibuster. Senators have chance to play political games with the high qualified candidates. Furthermore low-profile bills, it’s often not sufficient to raise cloture on district court judges or obscure administration positions. Instant agreement eliminated from the judicial logjam at times. There is an alert on crisis in the federal court when the judge retire the without replacing the post so they are thankful to filibuster in the senate.
Checks and balances are not necessary : Checks and balances with two houses in the legislature, the committee process, presidential vetoes and judicial review without a supermajority requirement in one of the chambers. As noted earlier, the founders didn’t intend for it to be this way.

Filibuster will be a great idea. If the democracies would follow and set their but which is unusual. Therefore, I believe that filibuster is unrealistic and not fruitful.