Deliberative Democracy for Diabolical Times

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-1-009-26187-6
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 260 Seiten, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 226 mm, Gewicht: 392 g

Democracy today faces deep and complex challenges, especially when it comes to political communication and the quality of public discourse. Dishonest and manipulative communication amplified by unscrupulous politicians and media pervades these diabolical times, enabling right-wing populism, extremism, truth denial, and authoritarianism to flourish. To tackle these issues, we need to encourage meaningful deliberative communication – creating spaces for reflective and constructive dialogue, repairing unhealthy public spheres while preserving healthier ones, and building discursive bridges across deep divides. Citizens who see through elite manipulations should be at the core of this response, especially if bad elite behavior is to be effectively constrained. Democratic activists and leaders, diverse interpersonal networks, resilient public spheres, deliberative innovations and clever communication strategies all have vital roles to play in both defending and renewing democracy. Healthy discursive infrastructures can make democracies work again.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bächtiger, André

Dryzek, John S

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. An introduction for diabolical times; 2. Deliberation for realists and skeptics; 3. Democracy in a diabolical soundscape; 4. How to deliberate with (and against) populists; 5. How to deliberate with (and against) extremists; 6. How to deliberate with (and against) deniers; 7. How to deliberate with (and against) authoritarians; 8. How to deliberate with everybody; 9. How to renew a deliberative democracy; Conclusion; References.

Über Autor(innen)

Dryzek, John S
John S. Dryzek is Distinguished Professor in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance at the University of Canberra. He is one of the founders of the deliberative democracy field. His previous books have won the International Conference for the Study of Political Thought's Spitz Prize for Best Book in Liberal and/or Democratic Theory, and the Western Political Science Association's Clay Morgan Prize for Best Book in Environmental Political Theory.

Bächtiger, André
André Bächtiger is Professor and Chair of Political Theory and Empirical Democracy Research in the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Stuttgart. He is one of the pioneering researchers for combining theoretical and empirical research on deliberation and, together with John Dryzek, is co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy. He recently obtained an ERC Advanced Grant for 'Designing Democracy on Mars and Earth'.