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The paper contrasts the liberal conception of democracy as the aggregation of individual preferences with the deliberative conception of democracy as a process of open discussion leading to an agreed judgement on policy. Social choice theory has identified problems – the arbitrariness of decision rules...
This establishes a normative framework for analyzing several important applied issues that arise in thinking about deliberative democracy in the real world: the role of cognitive diversity in deliberative decision-making, the problem of rational ignorance, inequality in public deliberation, and the ...
It argues that while Facebook solicits an intimate setting (under the guise of 'friendship') hospitable for rational and possibly intensive rational debates which are integral to the fostering of 'deliberative democracy', it also breeds the Foucauldian idea of 'disciplinary gaze' which excludes ...
The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. ...
(4) The necessary initial task of managers of deliberative democracy is to overcome domination and oppression, factors that cause voting against the common will such as ignorance, the mass media, religion, class, economic inequality and special interests. (5...
Voter Ignorance and Deliberative DemocracyAmerican voters are shockingly ignorant about politics. Not only do they not know basic facts about the structure of American government (what the three brancheSocial Science Electronic Publishing
Voter Ignorance and Deliberative DemocracyChad Flanders
ignoranceindividualismmethodology knowledgenon-mathematical approachpraxeologysubjectivismFocus on the concept of deliberative democracy has increased rapidly within recent decades. However, the concept is weakly defined, if at all. 'Deliberation' is defined as an unconstrained exchange of arguments that ...
But the public‐ignorance data show that the public is ignorant in a way that does not necessarily defeat deliberative democracy. Posner and Somin have overestimated the force of the Public Ignorance Objection, so the question of deliberative democracy's practical feasibility is still open.doi:...