The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation
Abstrak
Citizens can avoid polarization and make sound decisions That there are more opportunities than ever for citizens to express their views may be, counterintuitively, a problem facing democracy—the sheer quantitative overabundance overloads policymakers and citizens, making it difficult to detect the signal amid the noise. This overload has been accompanied by marked decline in civility and argumentative complexity. Uncivil behavior by elites and pathological mass communication reinforce each other. How do we break this vicious cycle? Asking elites to behave better is futile so long as there is a public ripe to be polarized and exploited by demagogues and media manipulators. Thus, any response has to involve ordinary citizens; but are they up to the task? Social science on “deliberative democracy” offers reasons for optimism about citizens' capacity to avoid polarization and manipulation and to make sound decisions. The real world of democratic politics is currently far from the deliberative ideal, but empirical evidence shows that the gap can be closed.
Topik & Kata Kunci
Penulis (20)
J. Dryzek
André Bächtiger
S. Chambers
Joshua Cohen
James N. Druckman
Andrea Felicetti
James S. Fishkin
D. Farrell
Archon Fung
A. Gutmann
Hélène Landemore
Jane J. Mansbridge
Sofie Marien
Michael Neblo
S. Niemeyer
Maija Setälä
Rune Slothuus
Jane Suiter
Dennis Thompson
Mark E Warren
Akses Cepat
- Tahun Terbit
- 2019
- Bahasa
- en
- Total Sitasi
- 382×
- Sumber Database
- Semantic Scholar
- DOI
- 10.1126/science.aaw2694
- Akses
- Open Access ✓