>Q: It suggests people are willing to relax some of their standards if they feel like they are in a fair, balanced and discursive arena.

>A: Exactly. I wouldn’t say that we’re deliberative. The informed decision part is utopian: It assumes that people bring their interests to the table honestly, which often is not the case, even in the very deliberative Swiss referendum model, for example. We usually use the word collaborative, which means we only identify some common values, and we’re satisfied with that. It’s not really a consensus. It’s more like consent, which signals someone can live with something, not necessarily that they would sign their name to it. --- Audrey Tang