The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

Author: André Bächtiger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-08-23

Total Pages: 1054

ISBN-13: 0191064572

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Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, in philosophy, in various research programmes in the social sciences and law, and in political practice around the globe. It provides a concise history of deliberative ideals in political thought and discusses their philosophical origins. The Handbook locates deliberation in political systems with different spaces, publics, and venues, including parliaments, courts, governance networks, protests, mini-publics, old and new media, and everyday talk. It engages with practical applications, mapping deliberation as a reform movement and as a device for conflict resolution, documenting the practice and study of deliberative democracy around the world and in global governance.


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Total Pages: 977

ISBN-13: 0198747365

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The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication

Author: Kate Kenski

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 977

ISBN-13: 0199793484

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Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hybrid field largely devoted to connecting the dots among political rhetoric, politicians and leaders, voters' opinions, and media exposure to better understand how any one aspect can affect the others. In The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson bring together leading scholars, including founders of the field of political communication Elihu Katz, Jay Blumler, Doris Graber, Max McCombs, and Thomas Paterson,to review the major findings about subjects ranging from the effects of political advertising and debates and understandings and misunderstandings of agenda setting, framing, and cultivation to the changing contours of social media use in politics and the functions of the press in a democratic system. The essays in this volume reveal that political communication is a hybrid field with complex ancestry, permeable boundaries, and interests that overlap with those of related fields such as political sociology, public opinion, rhetoric, neuroscience, and the new hybrid on the quad, media psychology. This comprehensive review of the political communication literature is an indispensible reference for scholars and students interested in the study of how, why, when, and with what effect humans make sense of symbolic exchanges about sharing and shared power. The sixty-two chapters in The Oxford Handbook of Political Communication contain an overview of past scholarship while providing critical reflection of its relevance in a changing media landscape and offering agendas for future research and innovation.


The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

The Oxford Handbook of Political Theory

Author: John S Dryzek

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-06-12

Total Pages: 898

ISBN-13: 0199548439

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Oxford Handbooks of Political Science are the essential guide to the state of political science today. With engaging contributions from 51 major international scholars, the Oxford Handbook of Political Theory provides the key point of reference for anyone working in political theory and beyond.


Mapping and Measuring Deliberation

Mapping and Measuring Deliberation

Author: André Bächtiger

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-11-29

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0192571036

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Deliberative democracy has challenged two widely-accepted nostrums about democratic politics: that people lack the capacities for effective self-government; and that democratic procedures are arbitrary and do not reflect popular will; indeed, that the idea of popular will is itself illusory. On the contrary, deliberative democrats have shown that people are capable of being sophisticated, creative problem solvers, given the right opportunities in the right kinds of democratic institutions. But deliberative empirical research has its own problems. In this book two leading deliberative scholars review decades of that research and reveal three important issues. First, the concept 'deliberation' has been inflated so much as to lose empirical bite; second, deliberation has been equated with entire processes of which it is just one feature; and third, such processes are confused with democracy in a deliberative mode more generally. In other words, studies frequently apply micro-level tools and concepts to make macro- and meso-level judgements, and vice versa. Instead, Bächtiger and Parkinson argue that deliberation must be understood as contingent, performative, and distributed. They argue that deliberation needs to be disentangled from other communicative modes; that appropriate tools need to be deployed at the right level of analysis; and that scholars need to be clear about whether they are making additive judgements or summative ones. They then apply that understanding to set out a new agenda and new empirical tools for deliberative empirical scholarship at the micro, meso, and macro levels.


Democracy Without Shortcuts

Democracy Without Shortcuts

Author: Cristina Lafont

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Published: 2020

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 0198848188

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This book defends the value of democratic participation. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it.


The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

The Oxford Handbook of Public Policy

Author: Michael Moran

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2008-06-12

Total Pages: 997

ISBN-13: 0199548455

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This is part of a ten volume set of reference books offering authoritative and engaging critical overviews of the state of political science. This work explores the business end of politics, where theory meets practice in the pursuit of public good.


Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance

Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance

Author: John S. Dryzek

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-03-22

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0199644853

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Deliberative democracy puts communication and talk at the centre of democracy. This text takes a fresh look at the foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the global system.


The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

The Oxford Handbook of Climate Change and Society

Author: John S. Dryzek

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-08-18

Total Pages: 742

ISBN-13: 0191618578

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Climate change presents perhaps the most profound challenge ever confronted by human society. This volume is a definitive analysis drawing on the best thinking on questions of how climate change affects human systems, and how societies can, do, and should respond. Key topics covered include the history of the issues, social and political reception of climate science, the denial of that science by individuals and organized interests, the nature of the social disruptions caused by climate change, the economics of those disruptions and possible responses to them, questions of human security and social justice, obligations to future generations, policy instruments for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and governance at local, regional, national, international, and global levels.


Beyond Empathy and Inclusion

Beyond Empathy and Inclusion

Author: Mary F. Scudder

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0197535453

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Beyond Empathy and Inclusion examines how to achieve democratic rule in large pluralistic societies where citizens are deeply divided. Scudder argues that listening is key; in a democracy, citizens do not have to agree with their political opponents, but they do have to listen to them. Being heard is what ensures we have a say in the laws to which we are held. While listening is admittedly difficult, this book investigates how to motivate citizens to listenseriously, attentively, and humbly, even to those with whom they disagree.