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Talking it through : puzzles of American democracy / Robert W. Bennett.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bennett, Robert W. (Robert William), 1941-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--United States.
- Democracy.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- Local Subjects:
- United States--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 223 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- The explanatory reach of democratic conversation
- Majoritarianism and the vote-centered model
- Descriptive shortcomings of the vote-centered model
- Democracy as involvement in conversation
- The United States Senate
- The electoral status of children
- Judicial review and the sense of difficulty
- Rational choice theory and the paradox of voting
- Evaluating the power of a conversational perspective
- Conversational explanation and its normative use.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [151]-214) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0801440408
- OCLC:
- 49805960
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