Tag: Deliberation

Free Download Derek W M Barker, David W McIvor, "Democratizing Deliberation: A Political Theory Anthology"
English | 2012 | ISBN: 092399341X | EPUB | pages: 184 | 0.4 mb
Democratizing Deliberation brings together recent and cutting-edge political theory scholarship on deliberative democracy. Edited by Kettering Foundation program officer Derek Barker, Noëlle McAfee, associate professor of philosophy at Emory University and associate editor of the Kettering Review, and Kettering Foundation research associate David McIvor, the collection reframes deliberative democracy to be sensitive to the deep conflicts, multiple forms of communication, and aspirations for civic agency that characterize real public deliberation. In so doing, the book addresses many of the most common challenges to the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. Democratizing Deliberation includes a foreword by David Mathews, president of the Kettering Foundation, and the following essays: "Introduction: Democratizing Deliberation," Derek W.M. Barker, Noëlle McAfee, and David W. McIvor "Three Models of Democratic Deliberation," Noëlle McAfee "Rhetoric and Public Reasoning: An Aristotelian Understanding of Political Deliberation," Bernard Yack "Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group Against the Gentlemen’s Club," John S. Dryzek "Everyday Talk in the Deliberative System," Jane Mansbridge "De-centering Deliberative Democracy," Iris Marion Young "Sustaining Public Engagement: Embedded Deliberation in Local Communities," Elena Fagotto and Archon Fung "Constructive Politics as Public Work: Organizing the Literature," Harry C. Boyte.

Free Download Manas Ray, "Crisis of Liberal Deliberation: Facets of Indian Democracy"
English | ISBN: 939114411X | 2021 | 604 pages | PDF | 42 MB
The precarity of democratic order In contemporary times needs no underlining. Crisis of Liberal Deliberation addresses this Issue from a novel perspective. Through what magic, queries this volume, the Indian democratic state is even surviving as a political formation.

Free Download Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision During the Cuban Missile Crisis by David R. Gibson
English | July 29, 2012 | ISBN: 0691151318 | True EPUB | 256 pages | 4.5 MB
In October 1962, the fate of the world hung on the American response to the discovery of Soviet nuclear missile sites in Cuba. That response was informed by hours of discussions between John F. Kennedy and his top advisers. What those advisers did not know was that President Kennedy was secretly taping their talks, providing future scholars with a rare inside look at high-level political deliberation in a moment of crisis. Talk at the Brink is the first book to examine these historic audio recordings from a sociological perspective. It reveals how conversational practices and dynamics shaped Kennedy’s perception of the options available to him, thereby influencing his decisions and ultimately the outcome of the crisis.

Free Download Aporetics : Rational Deliberation in the Face of Inconsistency By Rescher, Nicholas
2009 | 176 Pages | ISBN: 0822960575 | PDF | 4 MB
The word apory stems from the Greek aporia, meaning impasse or perplexing difficulty. InAporetics,Nicholas Rescher defines an apory as a group of individually plausible but collectively incompatible theses. Rescher examines historic, formulaic, and systematic apories and couples these with aporetic theory from other authors to form this original and comprehensive survey. Citing thinkers from the pre-Socratics through Spinoza, Hegel, and Nicolai Hartmann, he builds a framework for coping with the complexities of divergent theses, and shows in detail how aporetic analysis can be applied to a variety of fields including philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, logic, and intellectual history.Rescher’s in-depth examination reveals how aporetic inconsistency can be managed through a plausibility analysis that breaks the chain of inconsistency at its weakest link by deploying right-of-way precedence based on considerations of cognitive centrality. Thus while involvement with cognitive conflicts and inconsistencies are pervasive in human thought, aporetic analysis can provide an effective means of damage control.

Free Download Michael K. MacKenzie, "Future Publics: Democracy, Deliberation, and Future-Regarding Collective Action"
English | ISBN: 0197557155 | 2021 | 240 pages | EPUB, PDF | 996 KB + 9 MB
Scholars have often claimed that democracies, whatever their virtues, are functionally short-sighted. The evidence is clear: we have been unable to manage many long-term issues including climate change, nuclear waste disposal, natural disaster preparedness, infrastructure maintenance, and budget deficits. If voters and influential actors, such as interest groups and corporations, have dominant short-term interests, it may be difficult for elected politicians to act in the long-term interests of society, even if they think that it would be the right thing to do. To solve long-term problems, do we need political systems that are less democratic, or even authoritarian?

Free Download Alfred Moore, "Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise"
English | 2017 | pages: 223 | ISBN: 1316646254, 1107194520 | PDF | 6,6 mb
Democracies have a problem with expertise. Expert knowledge both mediates and facilitates public apprehension of problems, yet it also threatens to exclude the public from consequential judgments and decisions located in technical domains. This book asks: how can we have inclusion without collapsing the very concept of expertise? How can public judgment be engaged in expert practices in a way that does not reduce to populism? Drawing on deliberative democratic theory and social studies of science, Critical Elitism argues that expert authoritydepends ultimately on the exercise of public judgment in a context in which there are live possibilities for protest, opposition and scrutiny. This account points to new ways of looking at the role of civil society, expert institutions, and democratic innovations in the constitution of expert authority within democratic systems. Using the example of climate science, Critical Elitism highlights not only the risks but also the benefits of contesting expertise.