This book examines the reasons why so little attention has been paid to the listening aspect of democratic conversation, explores the role that listening might play in democracy, and outlines some institutional changes that could be made to make listening more central to democratic processes.
This book examines the reasons why so little attention has been paid to the listening aspect of democratic conversation, explores the role that listening might play in democracy, and outlines some institutional changes that could be made to make listening more central to democratic processes.
Andrew Dobson is currently Professor of Politics at Keele University. He is the author of Green Political Thought (4th edition, 2006), and of Citizenship and the Environment (OUP 2003), among other edited books, monographs, and papers. He is Principal Investigator on a 2011-2013 funded project called 'Reducing Energy Consumption Through Community Knowledge Networks' (http://www.esci.keele.ac.uk/recckn), and has just completed a 2-year funded seminar series on Biosecurity (http://www.bbk.ac.uk/environment/biosecurity/index.htm). During the writing of Listening for Democracy he was a Leverhulme Research Fellow. He is a member of the England and Wales Green Party and has stood in Parliamentary and local elections. He co-wrote the Green Party Manifesto in 2010, and is a founder member of the thinktank Green House (http://www.greenhousethinktank.org).
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Introduction 1: Why Listening? 2: Learning about Listening 3: Listening and Democracy 4: Deliberative and Dialogic Democracy 5: Listening to Whom? Listening for What? 6: Institutionalizing Listening
