Simone Chamber
Biographic Data
| ID | 3627730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Simone Chamber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Simone |
| FAMILY NAME | Chamber |
| SIGNATURE | CHAMBER S |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 991 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
The Counter-Majoritarian Referendum: Popular Voting Processes and Constitutional Change
Citizenship in Times of Crisis: A Comment on Danielle Allen’s Democratic Theory
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
Deliberative democracy and the digital public sphere: Asymmetrical fragmentation as a political not a technological problem
Political communication and opinion formation have always been central topics in democratic theory. Today, all eyes are on the new digital landscape and the ways that it is affecting these central elements of democracy. The diagnosis in both the popular press and scholarly research is that the digital revolution has been anything but good for democracy: "Today conventional wisdom holds that technologies have brought the world addictive devices, a…
Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation
In this essay I argue that when thinking about the design of referendums we should pay particular attention to the quality, substance, and inclusiveness of the debate and deliberation that precedes the vote. This is especially true for constitutional referendums that affect fundamental laws. I suggest that drawing out the procedure over time and including citizens’ mini‐publics might be helpful additions to our design tools box
Human Life Is Group Life: Deliberative Democracy for Realists
Skepticism about citizen competence is a core component of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels's call, in Democracy for Realists, for rethinking our model of democracy. In this paper I suggest that the evidence for citizen incompetence is not as clear as we might think; important research shows that we are good group problem solvers even if we are poor solitary truth seekers. I argue that deliberative democracy theory has a better handle on…
Reasoning: A social picture
The Many Faces of Good Citizenship
Diana Mutz's individual-level data show that participation and deliberation are often inversely related. This, according to Mutz, undermines many claims made by deliberative-democratic theory. However, a systemic approach to deliberative democracy challenges the significance of this finding. Although it is true that some citizens are political activists not open to hearing the other side and other citizens are less active but more open minded, bo…
Theories of Political Justification: Theories of Political Justification
This essay reviews contemporary theories of public justification. In particular, it argues that conceptions of public justification and public reason have moved significantly beyond Rawls
Rhetoric and the Public Sphere: Has Deliberative Democracy Abandoned Mass Democracy
The pathologies of the democratic public sphere, first articulated by Plato in his attack on rhetoric, have pushed much of deliberative theory out of the mass public and into the study and design of small scale deliberative venues. The move away from the mass public can be seen in a growing split in deliberative theory between theories of democratic deliberation (on the ascendancy) which focus on discrete deliberative initiatives within democraci…
How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion
The Politics of Equality: Rawls on the Barricades
The title of this essay might strike some people as odd. Rawls a revolutionary? Could one ever imagine the careful, gentle, and eminently sensible figure of John Rawls manning a barricade? The very strangeness of this image illustrates the uneasy connection between equality and politics in his work. Rawls's egalitarian vision would take nothing short of a revolution to bring about, and Rawls was anything but a revolutionary.Simone Chambers is Ass…
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement, Stephen Eric Bronner, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 181.I am very sympathetic to the project that Stephen Eric Bronner undertakes in this book. As someone inspired by the progressive potential of the Enlightenment, I find myself constantly on the defensive in a world deeply suspicious of the dead white men of eighteenth-century Europe. So I welcome a vig…
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity. By Michael Rabinder James. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 240p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Michael Rabinder James addresses one of the most pressing problems facing liberal democracies: how to deal fairly and justly with group conflict and identity-based political claims. Although a normative theorist at heart, James understands the problem as both a question of stability and of justice.…
Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy
Deliberativedemocratictheory
Deliberative democratic theory has moved beyond the “theoretical statement” stage and into the “working theory” stage. Although this essay revisits some of the main theoretical debates, this is done via a survey and evaluation of the state of deliberative democratic theory as it is being applied in a number of research areas and as it intersects with related normative debates. Five research areas are covered: public law, international relations, …
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
Contract or Conversation? Theoretical Lessons from the Canadian Constitutional Crisis
Deliberativedemocratictheory
Deliberative democratic theory has moved beyond the “theoretical statement” stage and into the “working theory” stage. Although this essay revisits some of the main theoretical debates, this is done via a survey and evaluation of the state of deliberative democratic theory as it is being applied in a number of research areas and as it intersects with related normative debates. Five research areas are covered: public law, international relations, …
Rhetoric and the Public Sphere: Has Deliberative Democracy Abandoned Mass Democracy
The pathologies of the democratic public sphere, first articulated by Plato in his attack on rhetoric, have pushed much of deliberative theory out of the mass public and into the study and design of small scale deliberative venues. The move away from the mass public can be seen in a growing split in deliberative theory between theories of democratic deliberation (on the ascendancy) which focus on discrete deliberative initiatives within democraci…
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
Human Life Is Group Life: Deliberative Democracy for Realists
Skepticism about citizen competence is a core component of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels's call, in Democracy for Realists, for rethinking our model of democracy. In this paper I suggest that the evidence for citizen incompetence is not as clear as we might think; important research shows that we are good group problem solvers even if we are poor solitary truth seekers. I argue that deliberative democracy theory has a better handle on…
Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity. By Michael Rabinder James. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 240p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Michael Rabinder James addresses one of the most pressing problems facing liberal democracies: how to deal fairly and justly with group conflict and identity-based political claims. Although a normative theorist at heart, James understands the problem as both a question of stability and of justice.…
Contract or Conversation? Theoretical Lessons from the Canadian Constitutional Crisis
Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation
In this essay I argue that when thinking about the design of referendums we should pay particular attention to the quality, substance, and inclusiveness of the debate and deliberation that precedes the vote. This is especially true for constitutional referendums that affect fundamental laws. I suggest that drawing out the procedure over time and including citizens’ mini‐publics might be helpful additions to our design tools box
How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion
Theories of Political Justification: Theories of Political Justification
This essay reviews contemporary theories of public justification. In particular, it argues that conceptions of public justification and public reason have moved significantly beyond Rawls
The Many Faces of Good Citizenship
Diana Mutz's individual-level data show that participation and deliberation are often inversely related. This, according to Mutz, undermines many claims made by deliberative-democratic theory. However, a systemic approach to deliberative democracy challenges the significance of this finding. Although it is true that some citizens are political activists not open to hearing the other side and other citizens are less active but more open minded, bo…
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
Citizenship in Times of Crisis: A Comment on Danielle Allen’s Democratic Theory
Deliberative democracy and the digital public sphere: Asymmetrical fragmentation as a political not a technological problem
Political communication and opinion formation have always been central topics in democratic theory. Today, all eyes are on the new digital landscape and the ways that it is affecting these central elements of democracy. The diagnosis in both the popular press and scholarly research is that the digital revolution has been anything but good for democracy: "Today conventional wisdom holds that technologies have brought the world addictive devices, a…
The Politics of Equality: Rawls on the Barricades
The title of this essay might strike some people as odd. Rawls a revolutionary? Could one ever imagine the careful, gentle, and eminently sensible figure of John Rawls manning a barricade? The very strangeness of this image illustrates the uneasy connection between equality and politics in his work. Rawls's egalitarian vision would take nothing short of a revolution to bring about, and Rawls was anything but a revolutionary.Simone Chambers is Ass…
The Counter-Majoritarian Referendum: Popular Voting Processes and Constitutional Change
Contract or Conversation? Theoretical Lessons from the Canadian Constitutional Crisis
Bad Civil Society
Examinant les differentes versions de l'argument de la societe civile en faveur de la democratie liberale, l'A. interroge les raisons socio-economiques qui poussent les gens a rejoindre de mauvaises organisations qui portent prejudice aux associations et a l'efficacite democratique
Deliberativedemocratictheory
Deliberative democratic theory has moved beyond the “theoretical statement” stage and into the “working theory” stage. Although this essay revisits some of the main theoretical debates, this is done via a survey and evaluation of the state of deliberative democratic theory as it is being applied in a number of research areas and as it intersects with related normative debates. Five research areas are covered: public law, international relations, …
Democracy, Popular Sovereignty, and Constitutional Legitimacy
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity
Deliberative Democracy and the Plural Polity. By Michael Rabinder James. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. 240p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Michael Rabinder James addresses one of the most pressing problems facing liberal democracies: how to deal fairly and justly with group conflict and identity-based political claims. Although a normative theorist at heart, James understands the problem as both a question of stability and of justice.…
The Politics of Equality: Rawls on the Barricades
The title of this essay might strike some people as odd. Rawls a revolutionary? Could one ever imagine the careful, gentle, and eminently sensible figure of John Rawls manning a barricade? The very strangeness of this image illustrates the uneasy connection between equality and politics in his work. Rawls's egalitarian vision would take nothing short of a revolution to bring about, and Rawls was anything but a revolutionary.Simone Chambers is Ass…
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement
Reclaiming the Enlightenment: Toward a Politics of Radical Engagement, Stephen Eric Bronner, New York: Columbia University Press, 2004, pp. xiii, 181.I am very sympathetic to the project that Stephen Eric Bronner undertakes in this book. As someone inspired by the progressive potential of the Enlightenment, I find myself constantly on the defensive in a world deeply suspicious of the dead white men of eighteenth-century Europe. So I welcome a vig…
How Religion Speaks to the Agnostic: Habermas on the Persistent Value of Religion
Rhetoric and the Public Sphere: Has Deliberative Democracy Abandoned Mass Democracy
The pathologies of the democratic public sphere, first articulated by Plato in his attack on rhetoric, have pushed much of deliberative theory out of the mass public and into the study and design of small scale deliberative venues. The move away from the mass public can be seen in a growing split in deliberative theory between theories of democratic deliberation (on the ascendancy) which focus on discrete deliberative initiatives within democraci…
Theories of Political Justification: Theories of Political Justification
This essay reviews contemporary theories of public justification. In particular, it argues that conceptions of public justification and public reason have moved significantly beyond Rawls
The Many Faces of Good Citizenship
Diana Mutz's individual-level data show that participation and deliberation are often inversely related. This, according to Mutz, undermines many claims made by deliberative-democratic theory. However, a systemic approach to deliberative democracy challenges the significance of this finding. Although it is true that some citizens are political activists not open to hearing the other side and other citizens are less active but more open minded, bo…
Reasoning: A social picture
Making Referendums Safe for Democracy: A Call for More and Better Deliberation
In this essay I argue that when thinking about the design of referendums we should pay particular attention to the quality, substance, and inclusiveness of the debate and deliberation that precedes the vote. This is especially true for constitutional referendums that affect fundamental laws. I suggest that drawing out the procedure over time and including citizens’ mini‐publics might be helpful additions to our design tools box
Human Life Is Group Life: Deliberative Democracy for Realists
Skepticism about citizen competence is a core component of Christopher H. Achen and Larry M. Bartels's call, in Democracy for Realists, for rethinking our model of democracy. In this paper I suggest that the evidence for citizen incompetence is not as clear as we might think; important research shows that we are good group problem solvers even if we are poor solitary truth seekers. I argue that deliberative democracy theory has a better handle on…
Citizenship in Times of Crisis: A Comment on Danielle Allen’s Democratic Theory
Wrecking the public sphere: The new authoritarians’ digital attack on pluralism and truth
Deliberative democracy and the digital public sphere: Asymmetrical fragmentation as a political not a technological problem
Political communication and opinion formation have always been central topics in democratic theory. Today, all eyes are on the new digital landscape and the ways that it is affecting these central elements of democracy. The diagnosis in both the popular press and scholarly research is that the digital revolution has been anything but good for democracy: "Today conventional wisdom holds that technologies have brought the world addictive devices, a…
The Counter-Majoritarian Referendum: Popular Voting Processes and Constitutional Change
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