Steven Goldberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 128497 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven Goldberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven |
| FAMILY NAME | Goldberg |
| SIGNATURE | GOLDBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Stuttgart |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6331-8943 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 100 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland
This article investigates the potential of deliberative minipublics to provide a new set of institutions for democratic renewal. Using three preregistered and identical conjoint experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland, it first shows that minipublics are moderately attractive institutional innovations, but that in all three country contexts, citizens in general are very reluctant to grant them empowerment and autonomy as well as as…
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums – Corrigendum
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums
A ‘deliberative wave’, with increasing uses of deliberative citizen forums, is sweeping the globe. Whereas deliberative citizen forum enthusiasts claim that they represent appropriate tools to reconnect citizens with politics and demand a stronger empowerment of deliberative citizen forums, critics argue that they will reduce rather than increase democratic legitimacy. This letter sheds new light on the roles of deliberative citizen forums in dem…
Just Advisory and Maximally Representative: A Conjoint Experiment on Non-Participants' Legitimacy Perceptions of Deliberative Forums
Citizen involvement in deliberative forums is frequently discussed with an eye to boosting the legitimacy of decision-making. However, this idea has been radically challenged by Cristina Lafont (2015, 2017, 2019), who argues that deliberative forums may decrease rather than increase legitimacy. Yet Lafont’s legitimacy challenge has been primarily discussed at a theoretical level without taking the perceptions of citizens into account. Referring t…
Towards a More Robust, But Limited and Contingent, Defence of the Political Uses of Deliberative Minipublics
The political uses of minipublics confront us with a dilemma: if we accept Cristina Lafont’s critique that minipublics should not have direct political traction but only yield a deliberation-promotion function in the public sphere, we are confronted by the fact that this function is muted in our mediatized, partisan and increasingly polarized political societies. To solve this dilemma, we propose an enhanced shortcut approach with semi-blind defe…
Deliberating or Thinking (Twice) About Democratic Preferences: What German Citizens Want From Democracy
The question, ‘which kind of democratic governance people prefer’, has moved to the forefront in current democracy research. This article uses existing hypotheses on democratic preferences as an input and employs an advanced research design to find out what citizens want if they had engaged in deliberation and reflection. We conducted an online-experiment with a deliberative treatment asking 256 German citizens in 2016. Our findings show that del…
Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law
Journal Article Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law Get access Ancheta Angelo N.. Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xiii, 190 pp. $23.95. Steven Goldberg Steven Goldberg Georgetown University Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 448–449, ht…
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Sex and dehumanization: By David Holbrook. Transaction Publishers edition of 1972 Pitman Publishing original with new introduction, 1998. 228 pages
The logic of patriarchy
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way
"American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science." "Discussing the most recent and pressing collisions between science and religion--such as the medicinal benefits of praye…
Defending choice
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. Sheila Jasanoff
Are Males Better at Mathematic Reasoning and if So, Why
There is today a widely‐accepted environmentalist argument denying a physiologically‐rooted male mathematical advantage
The Changing Face of Death: Computers, Consciousness, and Nancy Cruzan
The law of death and dying is exquisitely sensitive to our notion of what it means to be human. When the crucial aspects of personhood are irretrievably lost, we feel that an individual has died. But what are those crucial aspects? Changes in the legal definition of death over time suggest that our sense of what is unique to the human experience alters as science progresses. This essay maintains that the next few decades may bring a dramatic chan…
Athletes: Why Blacks Are Better Than Whites
Suppose, for argument's sake, that I am a racist. Suppose that my psychology, my economics, and my politics are predicated on an irrational hatred of Oriental peoples. Finally, suppose that, in the service of my psychological, economic, and political needs, I claim that the peoples of the Orient are shorter than the people of the United States and that they are so for genetic reasons. Would the irrationality of my needs cast doubt on the correctn…
The Theory of Patriarchy: A Final Summation, Including Responses to Fifteen Years of Criticism
It is arguable that the central questions requiring explanation by the behavioural and social sciences are those falling under the rubric “nature vs. nurture”. To be sure, the issue is oversimplified when stated so simply; there are both physiological and environmental elements in the causation of behaviour, as well as feedback through which each alters the other. Moreover, discussions of this dichotomy can often be seen to be sterile arguments a…
Reaffirming the obvious
Utopian yearning versus scientific curiosity
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Officer Performance and Compensation in Local Building Trades Unions
[Excerpt] This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the performance and compensation of local building trades union leaders. A growing literature has revived the common-sense notion that organizations should structure the compensation of both their employees and their executives so as to encourage them to take actions consistent with the goals of the organizations. One way to minimize the probability that executives will take acti…
Comment on Huber's Review of the Inevitability of Patriarchy
Response to Leacock and Livingstone
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums
A ‘deliberative wave’, with increasing uses of deliberative citizen forums, is sweeping the globe. Whereas deliberative citizen forum enthusiasts claim that they represent appropriate tools to reconnect citizens with politics and demand a stronger empowerment of deliberative citizen forums, critics argue that they will reduce rather than increase democratic legitimacy. This letter sheds new light on the roles of deliberative citizen forums in dem…
Deliberating or Thinking (Twice) About Democratic Preferences: What German Citizens Want From Democracy
The question, ‘which kind of democratic governance people prefer’, has moved to the forefront in current democracy research. This article uses existing hypotheses on democratic preferences as an input and employs an advanced research design to find out what citizens want if they had engaged in deliberation and reflection. We conducted an online-experiment with a deliberative treatment asking 256 German citizens in 2016. Our findings show that del…
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland
This article investigates the potential of deliberative minipublics to provide a new set of institutions for democratic renewal. Using three preregistered and identical conjoint experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland, it first shows that minipublics are moderately attractive institutional innovations, but that in all three country contexts, citizens in general are very reluctant to grant them empowerment and autonomy as well as as…
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums – Corrigendum
The Changing Face of Death: Computers, Consciousness, and Nancy Cruzan
The law of death and dying is exquisitely sensitive to our notion of what it means to be human. When the crucial aspects of personhood are irretrievably lost, we feel that an individual has died. But what are those crucial aspects? Changes in the legal definition of death over time suggest that our sense of what is unique to the human experience alters as science progresses. This essay maintains that the next few decades may bring a dramatic chan…
Response to Leacock and Livingstone
Comment on Huber's Review of the Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
The Inevitability of Patriarchy
Officer Performance and Compensation in Local Building Trades Unions
[Excerpt] This paper presents estimates of the relationship between the performance and compensation of local building trades union leaders. A growing literature has revived the common-sense notion that organizations should structure the compensation of both their employees and their executives so as to encourage them to take actions consistent with the goals of the organizations. One way to minimize the probability that executives will take acti…
Reaffirming the obvious
Utopian yearning versus scientific curiosity
The Theory of Patriarchy: A Final Summation, Including Responses to Fifteen Years of Criticism
It is arguable that the central questions requiring explanation by the behavioural and social sciences are those falling under the rubric “nature vs. nurture”. To be sure, the issue is oversimplified when stated so simply; there are both physiological and environmental elements in the causation of behaviour, as well as feedback through which each alters the other. Moreover, discussions of this dichotomy can often be seen to be sterile arguments a…
Athletes: Why Blacks Are Better Than Whites
Suppose, for argument's sake, that I am a racist. Suppose that my psychology, my economics, and my politics are predicated on an irrational hatred of Oriental peoples. Finally, suppose that, in the service of my psychological, economic, and political needs, I claim that the peoples of the Orient are shorter than the people of the United States and that they are so for genetic reasons. Would the irrationality of my needs cast doubt on the correctn…
Are Males Better at Mathematic Reasoning and if So, Why
There is today a widely‐accepted environmentalist argument denying a physiologically‐rooted male mathematical advantage
The Changing Face of Death: Computers, Consciousness, and Nancy Cruzan
The law of death and dying is exquisitely sensitive to our notion of what it means to be human. When the crucial aspects of personhood are irretrievably lost, we feel that an individual has died. But what are those crucial aspects? Changes in the legal definition of death over time suggest that our sense of what is unique to the human experience alters as science progresses. This essay maintains that the next few decades may bring a dramatic chan…
Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. Sheila Jasanoff
Defending choice
Seduced by Science: How American Religion Has Lost Its Way
"American religion, Steven Goldberg claims, has fallen into a trap. Just at the moment when it has amassed the political strength and won the legal right to participate effectively in public debate, it has lost its distinctive voice. Instead of speaking of human values, goals, and limits, it speaks in the language of science." "Discussing the most recent and pressing collisions between science and religion--such as the medicinal benefits of praye…
The logic of patriarchy
Regression: Essential Clinical Condition or Iatrogenic Phenomenon
Sex and dehumanization: By David Holbrook. Transaction Publishers edition of 1972 Pitman Publishing original with new introduction, 1998. 228 pages
The Dark Side of Analytic Conviction: Impasses of Omniscience and Complacency
It is common for analysts to struggle with substantial periods of impasse, and with the associated subjective feelings of shame and failure, while analyzing patients who rely heavily on narcissistic defenses. Facing the feelings that accompany periods of impasse, while at the same time pushing oneself to take necessary creative risks, is a huge and painful task for the analyst if it is deeply confronted. These patients engage in false uses of the…
Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law
Journal Article Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law Get access Ancheta Angelo N.. Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2006. xiii, 190 pp. $23.95. Steven Goldberg Steven Goldberg Georgetown University Law Center Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Volume 47, Issue 4, October 2005, Pages 448–449, ht…
Towards a More Robust, But Limited and Contingent, Defence of the Political Uses of Deliberative Minipublics
The political uses of minipublics confront us with a dilemma: if we accept Cristina Lafont’s critique that minipublics should not have direct political traction but only yield a deliberation-promotion function in the public sphere, we are confronted by the fact that this function is muted in our mediatized, partisan and increasingly polarized political societies. To solve this dilemma, we propose an enhanced shortcut approach with semi-blind defe…
Deliberating or Thinking (Twice) About Democratic Preferences: What German Citizens Want From Democracy
The question, ‘which kind of democratic governance people prefer’, has moved to the forefront in current democracy research. This article uses existing hypotheses on democratic preferences as an input and employs an advanced research design to find out what citizens want if they had engaged in deliberation and reflection. We conducted an online-experiment with a deliberative treatment asking 256 German citizens in 2016. Our findings show that del…
Just Advisory and Maximally Representative: A Conjoint Experiment on Non-Participants' Legitimacy Perceptions of Deliberative Forums
Citizen involvement in deliberative forums is frequently discussed with an eye to boosting the legitimacy of decision-making. However, this idea has been radically challenged by Cristina Lafont (2015, 2017, 2019), who argues that deliberative forums may decrease rather than increase legitimacy. Yet Lafont’s legitimacy challenge has been primarily discussed at a theoretical level without taking the perceptions of citizens into account. Referring t…
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums – Corrigendum
Catching the ‘Deliberative Wave’? How (Disaffected) Citizens Assess Deliberative Citizen Forums
A ‘deliberative wave’, with increasing uses of deliberative citizen forums, is sweeping the globe. Whereas deliberative citizen forum enthusiasts claim that they represent appropriate tools to reconnect citizens with politics and demand a stronger empowerment of deliberative citizen forums, critics argue that they will reduce rather than increase democratic legitimacy. This letter sheds new light on the roles of deliberative citizen forums in dem…
Empowered Minipublics for Democratic Renewal? Evidence from Three Conjoint Experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland
This article investigates the potential of deliberative minipublics to provide a new set of institutions for democratic renewal. Using three preregistered and identical conjoint experiments in the United States, Ireland, and Finland, it first shows that minipublics are moderately attractive institutional innovations, but that in all three country contexts, citizens in general are very reluctant to grant them empowerment and autonomy as well as as…
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