IHE has an article suggesting that we can improve goverment deliberation by modeling it on university and departmental meetings:

Civilized political behavior needs to be learned. And that's where universities come in, Mallory suggested, as nascent laboratories of democratic engagement. "I think ... the fundamental principles are [a commitment] to civil discourse, and listening, and speaking. Oppositional or special-interest democracy degenerates to adversarial [politics], in the sense that there’s a win-lose kind of goal," he explained. "A university is a good place to experiment with that."

Yeah. Let's find a large English department and give them a new job line. Now let's bring together a Marxist, a postmodern queer theorist, and a second wave feminist and have them hash out the job description. That way we can all watch them and learn fundamental principles of civil discourse. For fuck's sake.

References:
* A More Deliberative Democracy [IHE]

Previously:
* Anger Helps You Think
* The Lacanian Unconscious Vs. Pop Second-Wave Feminist Psychology That Ruins Peoples Lives
* Don't Read Your Goddamn PowerPoint Slides Out Loud [Video]