R Richards
Biographic Data
| ID | 55303 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Richards |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Richards |
| SIGNATURE | RICHARDS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pennsylvania State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4248-1220 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1915 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Building inclusive democratic engagement
Building interracial communication pedagogy into instruction in public participation is essential for democratic learning in multiracial societies, since racial inequality—rooted in histories of colonialism, enslavement, and segregation—continues to structure democratic participation in postcolonial nations. After reviewing the literature on interracial-communication pedagogy in public-participation instruction, this paper sets out an original th…
Rethinking narrative sensemaking
Mapping the landscape of cybersecurity preparedness
A panel data analysis of the impact of government trust on support for universal and air travel vaccine mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic
The Washington Climate Assembly
In this essay, we use applied rhetorical criticism to analyze how facilitators navigate online deliberation in the Washington Climate Assembly, a public deliberation process held virtually in January and February 2021. We draw on interviews with organizers and facilitators and from observational notes taken by the research team during Assembly deliberations. This analysis focuses on the Assembly's online note-taking practices. Previous research h…
Playing by white rules of racial equality
Inequalities related to racial identity are consistently reported across social institutions, not least education, and sport. These inequalities consistently challenge ‘post-race’ narratives that rationalise racism down to individual prejudices and poor decision-making. This paper presents part of the findings from a wider a twelve-month research project commissioned by British University and Colleges Sport (BUCS) to explore race equality. This w…
Active Is as Active Does
The development of theories of citizens’ political communication has been hindered by a debate over whether such communication is best characterized as deliberative or non-deliberative. This article aims to overcome that impasse with a new account of citizens’ political communication informed by theories of message production and sense-making: the goals–sense-making–justification (GSJ) model. This model holds that citizens’ political-communicativ…
Psychological Phenomena in Democratic Deliberation
Psychological phenomena have long been a focus of research on democratic deliberation, particularly concerning policy knowledge and attitudes and other issues addressed in conventional scholarship on political psychology. Yet in recent years, the subject matter of psychological research on deliberation has expanded to include a wider array of issues, ranging from lay conceptualizations of deliberation, to phenomena not foregrounded in traditional…
Deliberative Mini-publics as a Partial Antidote to Authoritarian Information Strategies
Authoritarian or illiberal regimes control a growing number of states throughout the world. Among the information strategies that these regimes use to gain and maintain support are the dissemination of false or misleading policy information and the use of manipulative policy frames. Deliberative mini-publics can partially counter those strategies by distributing accurate policy information and employing non-exploitative policy frames that affirm …
Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design
At smaller social scales, deliberative democratic theory can be restated as an input-process-output model. We advance such a model to formulate hypotheses about how the context and design of a civic engagement process shape the deliberation that takes place therein, as well as the impact of the deliberation on participants and subsequent policymaking. To test those claims, we extract and code case studies from Participedia.net, a research platfor…
Making policy information relevant to citizens
Research on deliberative mini-publics has neglected two topics: the information on which deliberation is based, and communication techniques by which mini-publics convey their findings to the public. This article sheds light on those two topics, by showing that a criterion for evaluating information – intersubjective relevance – structures information within mini-publics and information that mini-publics share with the wider public. The article e…
Embracing Digital Democracy
Recent advances in online civic engagement tools have created a digital civic space replete with opportunities to craft and critique laws and rules or evaluate candidates, ballot measures, and policy ideas. These civic spaces, however, remain largely disconnected from one another, such that tremendous energy dissipates from each civic portal. Long-term feedback loops also remain rare. We propose addressing these limitations by building an integra…
Symbolic-Cognitive Proceduralism
Burkhalter et al.’s (2002) self-reinforcing model of democratic deliberation is well established, but lacks an account of legitimacy, which is a key element of most democratic-deliberative theories. We extend Burkhalter et al.’s model by proposing a new model called “symbolic-cognitive proceduralism,” which explains how democratic-deliberative processes generate legitimacy, and how such legitimacy contributes to the social reproduction of deliber…
Inspiring and Informing Citizens Online
New Ideas on Public Deliberation from Young Scholars. Introduction
In this introduction, we discuss the importance of innovation in advancing deliberative democratic theory and practice. Prior examples reviewed include the Citizens’ Jury, the Deliberative Poll, the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly, and particularly the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review. We then preview the five essays that make up this special section of the Journal of Public Deliberation, which collects writings by graduate students who par…
Complementarity, Integration, and Responsiveness
When Movements Matter
When hundreds of histories of social security line the shelves, it is surprising that the last major study of the Townsend movement was published more than forty years ago. In When Movements Matter, the sociologist Edwin Amenta aims not only to update our knowledge and understanding of Francis Townsend's plan to end the depression by paying old-age revolving pensions, but also to contribute to theories about why social movements are sometimes inf…
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
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A History of Economic Doctrines
A History of Economic Doctrines
Playing by white rules of racial equality
Inequalities related to racial identity are consistently reported across social institutions, not least education, and sport. These inequalities consistently challenge ‘post-race’ narratives that rationalise racism down to individual prejudices and poor decision-making. This paper presents part of the findings from a wider a twelve-month research project commissioned by British University and Colleges Sport (BUCS) to explore race equality. This w…
Embracing Digital Democracy
Recent advances in online civic engagement tools have created a digital civic space replete with opportunities to craft and critique laws and rules or evaluate candidates, ballot measures, and policy ideas. These civic spaces, however, remain largely disconnected from one another, such that tremendous energy dissipates from each civic portal. Long-term feedback loops also remain rare. We propose addressing these limitations by building an integra…
Inspiring and Informing Citizens Online
Making policy information relevant to citizens
Research on deliberative mini-publics has neglected two topics: the information on which deliberation is based, and communication techniques by which mini-publics convey their findings to the public. This article sheds light on those two topics, by showing that a criterion for evaluating information – intersubjective relevance – structures information within mini-publics and information that mini-publics share with the wider public. The article e…
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
A History of Economic Doctrines
International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
When Movements Matter
When hundreds of histories of social security line the shelves, it is surprising that the last major study of the Townsend movement was published more than forty years ago. In When Movements Matter, the sociologist Edwin Amenta aims not only to update our knowledge and understanding of Francis Townsend's plan to end the depression by paying old-age revolving pensions, but also to contribute to theories about why social movements are sometimes inf…
Complementarity, Integration, and Responsiveness
New Ideas on Public Deliberation from Young Scholars. Introduction
In this introduction, we discuss the importance of innovation in advancing deliberative democratic theory and practice. Prior examples reviewed include the Citizens’ Jury, the Deliberative Poll, the British Columbia Citizens’ Assembly, and particularly the Oregon Citizens’ Initiative Review. We then preview the five essays that make up this special section of the Journal of Public Deliberation, which collects writings by graduate students who par…
Symbolic-Cognitive Proceduralism
Burkhalter et al.’s (2002) self-reinforcing model of democratic deliberation is well established, but lacks an account of legitimacy, which is a key element of most democratic-deliberative theories. We extend Burkhalter et al.’s model by proposing a new model called “symbolic-cognitive proceduralism,” which explains how democratic-deliberative processes generate legitimacy, and how such legitimacy contributes to the social reproduction of deliber…
Inspiring and Informing Citizens Online
Testing Assumptions in Deliberative Democratic Design
At smaller social scales, deliberative democratic theory can be restated as an input-process-output model. We advance such a model to formulate hypotheses about how the context and design of a civic engagement process shape the deliberation that takes place therein, as well as the impact of the deliberation on participants and subsequent policymaking. To test those claims, we extract and code case studies from Participedia.net, a research platfor…
Making policy information relevant to citizens
Research on deliberative mini-publics has neglected two topics: the information on which deliberation is based, and communication techniques by which mini-publics convey their findings to the public. This article sheds light on those two topics, by showing that a criterion for evaluating information – intersubjective relevance – structures information within mini-publics and information that mini-publics share with the wider public. The article e…
Embracing Digital Democracy
Recent advances in online civic engagement tools have created a digital civic space replete with opportunities to craft and critique laws and rules or evaluate candidates, ballot measures, and policy ideas. These civic spaces, however, remain largely disconnected from one another, such that tremendous energy dissipates from each civic portal. Long-term feedback loops also remain rare. We propose addressing these limitations by building an integra…
Deliberative Mini-publics as a Partial Antidote to Authoritarian Information Strategies
Authoritarian or illiberal regimes control a growing number of states throughout the world. Among the information strategies that these regimes use to gain and maintain support are the dissemination of false or misleading policy information and the use of manipulative policy frames. Deliberative mini-publics can partially counter those strategies by distributing accurate policy information and employing non-exploitative policy frames that affirm …
Active Is as Active Does
The development of theories of citizens’ political communication has been hindered by a debate over whether such communication is best characterized as deliberative or non-deliberative. This article aims to overcome that impasse with a new account of citizens’ political communication informed by theories of message production and sense-making: the goals–sense-making–justification (GSJ) model. This model holds that citizens’ political-communicativ…
Psychological Phenomena in Democratic Deliberation
Psychological phenomena have long been a focus of research on democratic deliberation, particularly concerning policy knowledge and attitudes and other issues addressed in conventional scholarship on political psychology. Yet in recent years, the subject matter of psychological research on deliberation has expanded to include a wider array of issues, ranging from lay conceptualizations of deliberation, to phenomena not foregrounded in traditional…
Playing by white rules of racial equality
Inequalities related to racial identity are consistently reported across social institutions, not least education, and sport. These inequalities consistently challenge ‘post-race’ narratives that rationalise racism down to individual prejudices and poor decision-making. This paper presents part of the findings from a wider a twelve-month research project commissioned by British University and Colleges Sport (BUCS) to explore race equality. This w…
The Washington Climate Assembly
In this essay, we use applied rhetorical criticism to analyze how facilitators navigate online deliberation in the Washington Climate Assembly, a public deliberation process held virtually in January and February 2021. We draw on interviews with organizers and facilitators and from observational notes taken by the research team during Assembly deliberations. This analysis focuses on the Assembly's online note-taking practices. Previous research h…
Building inclusive democratic engagement
Building interracial communication pedagogy into instruction in public participation is essential for democratic learning in multiracial societies, since racial inequality—rooted in histories of colonialism, enslavement, and segregation—continues to structure democratic participation in postcolonial nations. After reviewing the literature on interracial-communication pedagogy in public-participation instruction, this paper sets out an original th…
Rethinking narrative sensemaking
Mapping the landscape of cybersecurity preparedness
A panel data analysis of the impact of government trust on support for universal and air travel vaccine mandates during the Covid-19 pandemic
Sociology (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (11 works) · Politics (9 works) · Public relations (9 works) · Social Media and Politics (9 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Deliberation (7 works) · Deliberative democracy (6 works) · Psychology (6 works)