ABSTRACT
The chapter first illuminates the connection between deliberation and diversity. The guiding question being how collective deliberation between people with different levels of knowledge might increase the group’s ability to solve hard problems. After having gained a first conceptual foothold, the chapter proceeds to analyze the limits of deliberation (Section 7.2). The chapter argues that in attempting to make use of diverse perspectives, deliberation as a method, faces certain limits. The chapter analyses three different kinds of issues that prevent inclusive deliberation from making full use of a diversity of perspectives: the epistemic limits rooted in bounded rationality (7.3.3), psychological biases (7.3.1) and issues related to transaction costs (7.3.2). Based on these results, it is argued that expert deliberation tends to exhibit a conservative bias.
