# Deliberative Poll

> Deliberative Poll is mapped as the prototype: it tests new arrangements for participation, coordination, identity, law, and public intelligence.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:political-change:future-governance:deliberative-poll` |
| Family | Future Governance & Political Technology |
| Domain | Futures |
| Kind | technology |
| Archetypal function | The Prototype |
| Epistemic status | synthesis; supported |

## Concrete anchor

Deliberative Poll belongs to the **Future Governance & Political Technology** family. It is treated as a specific political object, role, institution, tactic, event, ideology, or mechanism before any symbolic transfer is made.

## What it does

Deliberative Poll tests new arrangements for participation, coordination, identity, law, and public intelligence, changing who can act, what becomes visible, and which costs are distributed to others.

## Who gains and who loses power

The mechanism can increase the capacity of actors able to use Deliberative Poll, while shifting cost, delay, risk, exclusion, or dependence toward actors with less authority, information, organization, money, or safe access. The distribution is conditional, not an essence of the node.

## Archetypal function

**The Prototype.** Deliberative Poll is mapped as the prototype: it tests new arrangements for participation, coordination, identity, law, and public intelligence.

## Gift

opens institutional imagination before crisis makes change compulsory; through Deliberative Poll, that capacity becomes available for deliberate use.

## Wound / Shadow

mistakes technical novelty for legitimacy and scales untested assumptions; Deliberative Poll can then reproduce the very arrangement it claims to change.

## Conditions

- scale and jurisdiction are explicit
- affected people and absent stakeholders are named
- time horizon and countermoves are considered

## Strategic meaning

Use Deliberative Poll to identify the operative target, resource, dependency, decision forum, and likely countermove. Ask what would make the mechanism stronger, weaker, more legitimate, or less necessary.

## Divinatory meaning

The Prototype enters through Deliberative Poll. Read for the capacity seeking expression, the cost displaced from view, and the relationship that changes if the frame moves.

**Question:** What changes when Deliberative Poll becomes the unit of analysis rather than background?

## Game function

**constraint.** Reveal one hidden dependency connected to Deliberative Poll; another player names a countermove. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **legitimizes — Future Generations Commissioner:** Future Generations Commissioner legitimizes Deliberative Poll by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **mobilizes — Permanent Citizens' Council:** Deliberative Poll mobilizes Permanent Citizens' Council by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(synthesis; supported)_
- **counteracts — Court Packing:** Court Packing counteracts Deliberative Poll by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_
- **legitimizes — The Technocrat:** Deliberative Poll legitimizes The Technocrat by changing authority, participation, resources, information, legitimacy, timing, or the cost of cooperation. _(interpretive; tentative)_

## Countermaps and polarity prompts

- Read Deliberative Poll from the viewpoint of the actor who bears its cost.
- Reverse cause and symptom: what if Deliberative Poll is an effect of the system it appears to drive?
- Change the clock: what looks different over a day, an election cycle, a generation, and a century?
- Ask when the Gift becomes the Wound through scale, secrecy, intensity, latency, or unequal reciprocity.

## Epistemic and Sentinel note

Claim layers: synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory. Scope, jurisdiction, period, and source perspective may change the claim.
No node-specific Sentinel factors were recorded; ordinary source, audience, and context checks still apply.

## Visual direction

A text-free enamel expression of Deliberative Poll: one dominant mechanism, one counterforce, raised warm-metal linework, midnight field, restrained civic red, teal, ivory, and amber. No party logo, national flag, sacred symbol, or recognizable person.

## Research / provenance

- [Guidance for Regulation of Digital Platforms](https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387339) — UNESCO, 2023. Platform governance, expression, information integrity, and rights.
- [Electoral System Design: The New International IDEA Handbook](https://www.idea.int/publications/catalogue/electoral-system-design-new-international-idea-handbook) — International IDEA, 2005. Comparative electoral-system design and consequences.
- [Introduction to Political Science](https://openstax.org/details/books/introduction-political-science) — OpenStax, 2022. Comparative institutions, political behavior, and public policy foundations.

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Engine Output version 1.0.0; generated 2026-08-24T00:00:00Z. Sentinel annotations are stored separately in `sentinel/handoffs.json`.
