Poverty inequality violence environmental degradation and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection on the ends and means of local national and global efforts to overcome these five scourges. After emphasizing th... Lees meer.

When the People Speak describes a new method of consulting the public that has been tried successfully around the world. The book combines the theory of democracy with actual practice. Fishkin lays out a theory of deliberative democracy and shows with practical exampl... Lees meer.

This overview of Habermas work explores the way in which his theories have developed and changed leading to an exposition of his more complex ideas and theories. His theory of communicative action is analysed as are key themes and how they inter-relate. This over... Lees meer.

Religion and politics as the old saying goes should never be discussed in mixed company. And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of political difference has long been a central concern of political theorists. More recently it has also become a cause c l bre... Lees meer.

In light of the latest research from cognitive and developmental psychology this key text explores reasoning rationality and democracy considering the unique nature of each and their relationship to each other. Broadening our understanding from the development of re... Lees meer.

Democracy in Motion uses theory research and practice to comprehensively explore what we know how we know it and what remains to be understood about deliberative civic engagement. The book is useful to scholars practitioners public officials activists and citize... Lees meer.

Although the field of deliberative civic engagement is growing rapidly around the world our knowledge and understanding of its practice and impacts remain highly fragmented. Democracy in Motion represents the first comprehensive attempt to assess the practice and impac... Lees meer.

Deliberative democracy is often dismissed as a set of small-scale academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement acro... Lees meer.

Deliberative democracy whereby people debate competing ideas before agreeing upon political action must surely rest on its capacity to include all points of view. But how does this inclusive framework engage with activism that occurs outside of and in opposition to... Lees meer.

As American politics becomes ever more dominated by powerful vested interests positive change seems permanently stymied. Left out in the cold by the political process citizens are frustrated and despairing. How can we take back our democracy from the grip of oligarchy... Lees meer.

Featuring cases from India China Nepal Japan South Korea Singapore and Malaysia the authors demonstrate and compare the differing uses of public deliberation in Asia. Featuring cases from India China Nepal Japan South Korea Singapore Mongolia and Malays... Lees meer.

This book advances a naturalized normative theory of deliberative democracy one that is informed by an empirically-grounded analysis of public deliberation in naturalistic settings and in unadulterated form and goes on to provide institutional design proposals for h... Lees meer.

Deliberative democracy is a key focus of research in contemporary democratic theory. This important new text is the first to provide a systematic and accessible introduction to the main theories and debates in the field and in addition offers a detailed critical assessm... Lees meer.

Religion after Deliberative Democracy responds to gaps exposed by the case of religion in deliberative democratic theory. Religion after Deliberative Democracy responds to gaps exposed by the case of religion in deliberative democratic theory. Religion s persistent... Lees meer.

Deliberative Democracy in the EU. Promoting Participation to Impede Populism examines practices for increasing effective participation in democracy today. Representative democracy remains the best available form of government and the one preferred by most EU citiz... Lees meer.