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Can Deliberative Democracy Work In Hierarchical Organizations?, Jason Pierce, Grant Neeley, Jeffrey Budziak
Can Deliberative Democracy Work In Hierarchical Organizations?, Jason Pierce, Grant Neeley, Jeffrey Budziak
Grant W. Neeley
Some measure of equality is necessary for deliberative democracy to work well, yet empirical scholarship consistently points to the deleterious effect that hierarchy and inequalities of epistemological authority have on deliberation. This article tests whether real-world deliberative forums can overcome these challenges. Contrary to skeptics, it concludes that the act of deliberation itself and the presence of trained moderators ameliorate inequalities of epistemological authority, thus rendering deliberative democracy possible, even within hierarchical organizations.
Propaganda Or Diplomacy? 'Selling' Brand Australia, Stuart Murray
Propaganda Or Diplomacy? 'Selling' Brand Australia, Stuart Murray
Stuart Murray
No abstract provided.
Probable Futures, Mindy Peden
Probable Futures, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
This essay examines the status of "the future" in political theory and asks how views about the future contribute to, undermine, or otherwise interact with normative approaches in general.
Is Federalism The Reason For Policy Failure In Hurricane Katrina?, Thomas Birkland, Sarah Waterman
Is Federalism The Reason For Policy Failure In Hurricane Katrina?, Thomas Birkland, Sarah Waterman
Thomas A Birkland
Governmental responses to Hurricane Katrina are generally cited as policy failures. Media and popular analyses focus on the federal government’s policy failures in hazard preparedness, response, and recovery. Meanwhile, disaster experts realize that disaster response is a shared intergovernmental responsibility.We examine the federal nature of natural disaster policy in the US to consider whether federalism, or other factors, had the greatest influence on the failures in Katrina.We find that some policy failures are related to policy design considerations based in federalism, but that the national focus on ‘‘homeland security’’ and the concomitant reduction in attention to natural hazards and disasters, …
Lots Of Luck: Contextualizing Sortition In Approaches To Chance, Mindy Peden
Lots Of Luck: Contextualizing Sortition In Approaches To Chance, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
Explores the ways in which luck and chance have been understood by political theorists. Contemporary political thinkers understand luck to describe those situations in which the individual subject has no control. Chance, however, has been understood in a variety of ways over time, beginning with Aristotle suggesting that chance is the “coincidental intersection of two separate causes.” Enlightenment thinkers argue, however, from a more deterministic perspective suggesting that chance is an epistemological category resulting from a deficit of human knowledge. In other words, the world is deterministic and certain even if not predictable by humans. That the world is a …
Betting On Democracy: Luck And Possibility In The Modern Political Imagination, Mindy Peden
Betting On Democracy: Luck And Possibility In The Modern Political Imagination, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
If there are political implications to methodological choices, what are they? This paper is about the political implications of one particular methodology: probability theory. More correctly, this paper is about how social scientists, especially political scientists, use probability theory in understanding the actions of human beings.
Probably Democratic, Mindy Peden
Probably Democratic, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
I explore uses for the role of chance in theorizing democracy and explores how the potentially fortune friendly use of probability theory in the social sciences has been misrepresented to highlight an imaginary predictability of political life.
Brewed In Scotland, Bottled In Ulster, Uncorked In The Usa: The Ambiguity Of Diasporic Identity, Mindy Peden, Wendy Wiedenhoft
Brewed In Scotland, Bottled In Ulster, Uncorked In The Usa: The Ambiguity Of Diasporic Identity, Mindy Peden, Wendy Wiedenhoft
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
Learning To Work: Colonialism As Rule, Not Exception, Mindy Peden
Learning To Work: Colonialism As Rule, Not Exception, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
Gambling For Certainty: Luck, Chance, And Uncertainty In Politics, Mindy Peden, Nicole Rishel
Gambling For Certainty: Luck, Chance, And Uncertainty In Politics, Mindy Peden, Nicole Rishel
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
The Political Gamble: Government By Lot, Mindy Peden
The Political Gamble: Government By Lot, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
The Political Gamble, Mindy Peden
Taxation And The Scientization Of Politics, Mindy Peden
Taxation And The Scientization Of Politics, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
Contemporary Political Theory And The Problem Of Taxation, Mindy Peden
Contemporary Political Theory And The Problem Of Taxation, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.
Language And Arrogance: Problems With A Principle Of Justice, Mindy Peden
Language And Arrogance: Problems With A Principle Of Justice, Mindy Peden
Mindy Peden
No abstract provided.