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reduce the scope for people to meaningfully participate in shaping their lives and communities. We will call these threats “centralizing”.

National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation is

Both threats strike at the heart of democracy, which, as Alexis de Tocqueville famously highlighted in Democracy in America, depends on deep and diverse, non-market, decentralized social and civil connections to thrive

in terms of depth and breadth.

Scientific models that seek to predict the consequences of human actions with some reasonable accuracy—such as game theoretical models of economic behavior—for the most part ignore human individuality in favor of aggregated outcomes.