Mapping and measuring deliberation : towards a new deliberative quality / André Bächtiger and John Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bächtiger, André, 1971- author.

Parkinson, John, 1966- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deliberative democracy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

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 text two leading deliberative scholars review decades of that research and reveal three important issues.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 8, 2019).

ISBN:

0-19-257103-6

0-19-187262-8

0-19-165235-0