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Design Choices Trade-Offs Duration Shorter Advantages: More suitable for crises or short decision horizons, less expensive, easier to include those with less free time Disadvantages: Less learning, shallower deliberation, fewer opportunities to connect to wider community Remit/task Broader Advantages: Often more significant, easier to connect complex issues together Disadvantages: Can impose high learning demands, produce scattered or shallow deliberation, more difficult to reach decisions, can conflict with jurisdictional powers or produce broad conclusions that are less likely to be actionable Narrower Advantages: Easier learning, deeper (but narrower) deliberation, more likely to produce specific actionable results Disadvantages: Participants often resist narrowing complex or difficult issues; tasks may seem less significant and thus reduce the commitment of participants 99