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Presidential Debates And Deliberative Democracy, Charles Collier Aug 2015

Presidential Debates And Deliberative Democracy, Charles Collier

Charles W. Collier

Consider democracy in America through the lens of the presidential debates. It is not a pretty picture. From a high point in the nineteenth century (for example, the lengthy Lincoln-Douglas Senate campaign debates of 1858) a declining trajectory can be traced to the present day, with a marked acceleration in the Age of Television. To our polity's discredit, the presidential debate has long since ceased to be a dialogue that might shed light on the candidates' true powers of deliberation. The key to reversing this long decline, I believe, lies in an unlikely place: in the structural features of the …


The Use And Abuse Of Humanistic Theory In Law: Reexamining The Assumptions Of Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship, Charles Collier Nov 2014

The Use And Abuse Of Humanistic Theory In Law: Reexamining The Assumptions Of Interdisciplinary Legal Scholarship, Charles Collier

Charles W. Collier

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Constitutionality Of Statutory Renegotiation, Charles Collier Nov 2014

Constitutionality Of Statutory Renegotiation, Charles Collier

Charles W. Collier

No abstract provided.