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Democracy when the people are thinking revitalizing our politics through public deliberation

Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democr...

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Main Author: Fishkin, James S. (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Edition:First editon.
Subjects:
Representative government and representation.
Deliberative democracy.
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Summary:Democracy requires a connection to the 'will of the people'. What does that mean in a world of 'fake news', relentless advocacy, dialogue mostly among the like-minded, and massive spending to manipulate public opinion? What kind of opinion can the public have under such conditions? What would democracy be like if the people were really thinking in depth about the policies they must live with? If they really 'deliberated' with good information about their political choices?
Physical Description:x, 259 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780198820291
0198820291
Author Notes:James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University, where he is Professor of Communication and (by courtesy) Professor of Political Science. He is also Director of Stanford's Center for Deliberative Democracy. He is the author of Democracy and Deliberation (Yale, 1991), When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation (OUP, 2009) and other books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, California.

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