Webcast: Can Democratic Deliberation
Solve Our Extreme Partisan Polarization?
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America in One Room

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Hear from James Fishkin and Larry Diamond as they discuss the results of their 2019 experiment in deliberative polling, "America in One Room," and their plans to scale up democratic deliberation as a tool to inform and depolarize our democracy.

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About the Speakers

Larry Diamond, '73, MA '78, PhD '80, is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI). James S. Fishkin is the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford and director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy.

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This event is sponsored by the Stanford Alumni Association.