Deliberation, Participation and Democracy: Can the People Govern? [Hardcover]

Political participation is falling and citizen alienation and cynicism is increasing. This volume brings together the first work of this kind by leading scholars in the US and Europe to consider the issue. Four of the leading philosophers of deliberative democracy contribute their commentaries on the groundbreaking empirical research.Introduction: Theoretical Perspectives and Empirical Research on Deliberative Democracy; S.W.Rosenberg PART I: EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF DEMOCRATIC DELIBERATION Who Deliberates? Discursive Participation in America; F.L.Cook, M.D.Carpini & L.Jacobs The Democratic Potential of Civic Dialogue; K.C.Walsh Deliberation and Agreement; C.List Deliberation in Legislatures; A.Bachtiger, M.Sporndli, M.Steenbergen & J.Steiner How People Deliberate about Justice; T.Mendelberg & C.Karpowitz Types of Discourse and the Democracy of Deliberation; S.W.Rosenberg Minipublics: Deliberative Designs and their Consequences; A.Fung Deliberation with a Purpose: Reconnecting Communities and Schools; S.Weatherford & L.McDonnell PART II: THEORETICAL REFLECTIONS ON THE EMPIRICAL RESEARCH Deliberative Democracy; J.Cohen Theory, Evidence and the Tasks of Deliberation; J.Dryzek Deliberative Democracy or Democratic Deliberation; J.Mansbridge Institutionalizing Deliberative Democracy; M.WarrenANDR? B?CHTIGER Senior Assistant, Institute of Political Science, University of Bern, SwitzerlandFAY LOMAX COOK Director of the Institute for Policy Research, Northwestern University, USAMICHAEL X. DELLI CARPINI Dean of the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, USACHRISTOPHER F. KARPOWITZ Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University, USAJOSHUA COHEN Professor of Philosophy and Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USAJOHN DRYZEK Head of the Social and Political Theory Program, Australian National University, AustraliaARCHON FUNG Assistant Professor of Public Policy, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Gl3;