This is a note pad and NOT an official statement of the Pirate Party!

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Decision-Making (Willensbildung) as the overall social and political process could be divided into the following areas:

• Information Gathering ( for more see: http://ls6-www.informatik.uni-dortmund.de/index.php?id=43&l=1&w=0&a=1 )
  • agglomeration
  • countercheck
  • visualization
    
    
• Opinion-Forming
  • ideation (as by brainstorming) / reasoning
  • discussion / position forming
  • expression of opinion content, as by drafting
  • discovery and expression of opinion form/shape, as by polling or voting
    
    
• Decision-Forming
  • expression of decision, as by voting // shouldn't it be resolutions, whereas decissions are

                                                                  part of the discussion process ?