Discourse, Deliberation and Difference in an Authoritarian Public Sphere
This article explores how discourse, deliberation and difference – classically advanced by Jurgen Habermas and Iris Marion Young within a Western democratic context – functions in an authoritarian...
View ArticleDeliberative Qualities of Online Abortion Discourse: Incivility and...
This paper provides a big-data-scale assessment of the deliberative qualities of online abortion discussions on Twitter in the United States (2020) and Ireland (2018) by specifically focusing on two...
View ArticleOn Deliberators’ Awareness of Attitude Transformation
The significance of deliberators’ awareness of attitude transformation can be derived directly from deliberative democracy theory, but the issue has received little attention in research. This paper is...
View ArticleThe Influence of Leaders on the Quality of Citizen Deliberation: An...
Leaders can be essential in setting the tone of deliberation in the public sphere, but can their discursive style influence the wider public sphere? Mass communication usually mediates leader-citizen...
View ArticleLearning Deliberative Capacities in Brazilian Schools
What are the impacts of teaching deliberation on students’ attitudes in practical discussions? This study presents research findings from a field experiment involving more than 500 students from five...
View ArticleRhetorical Alignment between Political Campaign Discourse and Democratic...
The role of rhetoric in deliberation has received considerable attention in deliberative and rhetorical theory, but it is still unclear how non-deliberative rhetoric can work symbiotically with...
View ArticleThe Rise of Procedural Legitimacy of the EU under the Juncker Commission: The...
The aim of this paper is to examine if, and to what extent, the EU governance system corresponds to the principles and demands of procedural legitimacy. We analyze procedural legitimacy as this is...
View ArticleThe Manifestations and Trajectories of Deliberative Constitution-Making: An...
Deliberative democratic theorists and practitioners have increasingly taken constitution-making as an object of study and a target for action. Yet they most often lack a comprehensive picture of the...
View ArticleDemocratic Innovations Administered: The Organisational Embeddedness of...
The prevailing discourse in Deliberative Democracy tends to overlook the pivotal role of public administration in shaping and executing democratic innovations. This article addresses this gap by...
View ArticleEvaluating the Role of Public Hearings within Deliberative Democracy:...
Public hearings are used widely in policy and decision making. Hearings have been subject to criticisms in some academic quarters. While some of these criticisms are valid, hearings have been...
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