Sustaining democracy what we owe to the other side
"Democracy is hard work. It can flourish only when citizens actively participate in the business of collective self-government. Yet political participation gives rise to deep political divides over core political values. In the midst of these divisions, citizens are required to recognize one another...
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Sustaining democracy : |b what we owe to the other side / |c Robert B. Talisse. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 8 | |a Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Big Picture -- 1. Common Ground and Its Erosion -- 2. Is Democracy Self-.Defeating? -- 3. Sustaining Democracy and Overdoing Democracy -- 4. Final Preliminaries -- 1. Democracy as a Society of Equals -- 1. Democracy as a Moral Idea -- 2. Democracy as an Ethos -- 2.1. Duties of Citizenship -- 2.2. Virtues of Citizenship -- 2.3. Fitting the Pieces Together -- 3. Democracy as a Practical Ideal -- 4. The Generality of the Account -- 2. Why Sustain Democracy? -- 1. Seeing the Dilemma from the Inside -- 2. Persistent Political Disagreement -- 2.1. Good-.Faith Political Disagreement -- 2.2. Limits to Good-.Faith Political Disagreement -- 2.3. The Dilemma Restated -- 3. The Burden of Citizenship -- 4. Addressing the Citizen -- 3. The Polarization Dynamic -- 1. Political Polarization -- 1.1. Three Sites of Political Polarization -- 1.2. The Three Sites as Mutually Reinforcing -- 2. Belief Polarization -- 2.1. Examples of Belief Polarization -- 2.2. Thinking in Groups -- 2.3. How Belief Polarization Works -- 2.4. Belief Polarization and the Stadium -- 2.5. Polarization as a Dynamic -- 3. Polarization Among Allies -- 3.1. Love Your Political Enemies? -- 3.2. Fractured Allegiances -- 4. The Dilemma Resolved: Why Sustain Democracy -- 4. How Can We Sustain Democracy? -- 1. The Depth of Political Identity -- 1.1. Some Experimental Findings -- 1.2. Political Identity as a Way of Seeing the World -- 2. The Facilitated Democracy Approach -- 3. How to Sustain Democracy -- 3.1. What Sustaining Democracy Does Not Require -- 3.2. Sustaining Democracy Within -- 3.3. The Importance of Political Distance -- 4. Conclusion 5058 Epilogue: Living Together as Equals -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "Democracy is hard work. It can flourish only when citizens actively participate in the business of collective self-government. Yet political participation gives rise to deep political divides over core political values. In the midst of these divisions, citizens are required to recognize one another as political equals, as fellow participants who are entitled to an equal share of political power. Research shows that political engagement exposes citizens to forces that erode their capacities to regard their political opponents as their equals. In the course of democratic participation, we come to see our opponents as inept and ill-motivated, ultimately unfit for democracy. This tendency is especially pronounced among those who are the most politically active. Democratic citizenship thus can undermine itself. There is a conflict at the heart of democratic citizenship. We must actively pursue justice while also treating those who embrace injustice as our equals. Sustaining Democracy navigates this conflict. It begins by exploring partisanship and polarization, the two mechanisms by which citizens come to regard their opponents as unsuited for democracy. It then proposes strategies by which citizens can mitigate these forces without thereby dampening their political commitments. As it turns out, the same forces that lead us to scorn our opponents can also undermine and fracture our political alliances. If we are concerned to further justice, we need to uphold civil relations with our opponents, even when we despise their political views. If we want to preserve our political friendships, we must sustain democracy with our foes"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Polarization (Social sciences) |x Political aspects. | |
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