Shawn W. Rosenberg

Deliberation, Participation and Democracy

Can the People Govern?

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholars in the US and Europe to consider the issue. Four of the leading philosophers of deliberative democracy contribute their commentaries on the groundbreaking empirical research.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan UK / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-35507-5
• 1st ed. 2007
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 436g
• ISBN-13: 9781349355075
• ISBN-10: 1349355070
• Artikelnr.: 45076548

Autorenporträt

ANDRÉ BÄCHTIGER Senior Assistant, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, Switzerland FAY LOMAX COOK Director of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, USA MICHAEL X. DELLI CARPINI Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USA CHRISTOPHER F. KARPOWITZ Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, USA JOSHUA COHEN Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA JOHN DRYZEK Head of the Social and Political Theory Program, Australian National University, Australia ARCHON FUNG Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, USA LAWRENCE R. JACOBS Land Grant-McKnight Professor, University of Minnesota and Adjunct Professor in the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute, USA CHRISTIAN LIST Reader in Political Science, London School of Economics, UK LORRAINE M. MCDONNELL Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA JANE MANSBRIDGE Adams Professor, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, USA TALI MENDELBERG Associate Professor of Politics, Princeton University, USA MARKUS SPÖRNDLI Communications Officer, Swiss Agency for Economic Development Cooperation, Switzerland MARCO R. STEENBERGEN Associate Professor of Political Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA JÜRG STEINER Professor Emeritus, University of North Carolina atChapel Hill, USA and the University of Bern, Switzerland KATHERINE CRAMER WALSH Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA MARK E. WARREN Professor of Government, Georgetown University, USA M. STEPHEN WEATHERFORD Professor of Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Research on Deliberative Democracy; S.W.Rosenberg PART I: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION Who Deliberates? Discursive Participation in America; F.L.Cook, M.D.Carpini & L.Jacobs The Democratic Potential of Civic Dialogue; K.C.Walsh Deliberation and Agreement; C.List Deliberation in Legislatures; A.Bachtiger, M.Sporndli, M.Steenbergen & J.Steiner How People Deliberate about Justice; T.Mendelberg & C.Karpowitz Types of Discourse and the Democracy of Deliberation; S.W.Rosenberg Minipublics: Deliberative Designs and their Consequences; A.Fung Deliberation with a Purpose: Reconnecting Communities and Schools; S.Weatherford & L.McDonnell PART II: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Deliberative Democracy; J.Cohen Theory, Evidence and the Tasks of Deliberation; J.Dryzek Deliberative Democracy or Democratic Deliberation; J.Mansbridge Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy; M.Warren