Twenty five years later, Dr . Bill Metcalf, in his edited book " Shared Visions, Shared Lives " defined communes as having the following core principles : the importance of the group as opposed to the nuclear family unit, a " common purse ", a collective household, group decision making in general and intimate affairs.
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Online deliberation is very interdisciplinary, and includes practices such as online consultation, e-participation, online deliberative polling, crowdsourcing, online facilitation, online research communities, interactive e-learning, civic dialogue in Internet forums and online chat, and group decision making that utilizes collaborative software and other forms of computer-mediated communication.
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MRU uses theoretical explanations for examining the approaches to understanding group decision making . " When groups are highly motivated to reduce the uncertainty surrounding a decision and there are no competing motives such as time or cost limitations, highly rational behaviors lead to information seeking to reduce uncertainty to optimize decisions . " MRU could be used at the organizational level to examine communication related to organizational strategy.
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The " strongest, political rationale " for democratic education is that it teaches " the virtues of democratic deliberation for the sake of future citizenship . " This type of education is often alluded to in the deliberative democracy literature as fulfilling the necessary and fundamental social and institutional changes necessary to develop a democracy that involves intensive participation in group decision making, negotiation, and social life of consequence.
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He has also studied group decision making, modeling the interaction as a network, and showing through a set of novel experiments that networks aid the ability of groups to successfully undertake tasks when network interactions are cheap, tasks are easy, network participants share common interest in the outcome, participants have sufficient information about how their and others actions affect outcomes on the network, or the network participants are highly connected.
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:Since this seems sensible but is possibly arguable, here's what I would do : I'd make the change ( by editing the redirect page Collaborative decision making ), and open a thread on the talk page of Collaboration saying "'Collaborative decision making'used to link here, but I have changed it to link to Group decision making, are there any objections ?'" . ( Normally you'd make this note at the page being changed, which is Collaborative decision making, but redirect talk pages aren't watched much; instead, when I made the change, in the edit summary I'd say " Changing redirect, see Talk : Collaboration " ).
