Motivated Reasoning in Political Information Processing
The Death Knell of Deliberative Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10928349 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mason Richey (0000-0003-4897-8238, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 511-542 |
| Publication date | 2012-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Philosophy of the Social Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-3931 • E-ISSN: 1552-7441 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0048393111430761 |
| OpenAlex | W2750800230 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 28 |
In this article, I discuss what motivated reasoning research tells us about the prospects for deliberative democracy. In section I, I introduce the results of several political psychology studies examining the problematic affective and cognitive processing of political information by individuals in nondeliberative, experimental environments. This is useful because these studies are often neglected in political philosophy literature. Section II has three stages. First, I sketch how the study results from section I question the practical viability of deliberative democracy. Second, I briefly present the results of three empirical studies of political deliberation that can be interpreted to counter the findings of the studies in section I. Third, I show why this is a misinterpretation and that the study results from section I mean that it is implausible that sites of political deliberation would naturally emerge from the wide public sphere and coalesce into institutionalized forms of the practice such that deliberative democracy can satisfy its raison d’être. Finally, in section III, I conclude that viable conceptions of deliberative democracy should be limited to narrower aims
Cognition · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Political communication · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Section (typography) · Sketch · Social science · Sociology · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
Advisory, Collaborative and Scrutinizing Roles of Deliberative Mini-Publics
Persuasion or Co-creation? Social Identity Threat and the Mechanisms of Deliberative Transformation
Can Deliberative Democracy Provide Remedies for Affective Polarisation
Where it all starts
Do (Microtargeted) Deepfakes Have Real Effects on Political Attitudes
Appeals to evidence for the resolution of wicked problems
Can Deliberative Minipublics Address the Cognitive Challenges of Democratic Citizenship
Stealth Democracy
Why Deliberative Democracy?
Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy
Five Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy
Future Directions for Public Deliberation
The Chinese Communist Party and Deliberative Democracy
Deliberative Democracy Defended
The Law of Group Polarization
Concluding Comments on Empirical Approaches to Deliberative Politics
Experimenting with a Democratic Ideal
The World Wide Web and the U.S. Political News Market
Hot Cognition or Cool Consideration? Testing the Effects of Motivated Reasoning on Political Decision Making
The Affective Tipping Point
When Corrections Fail
Means, ends, and public ignorance in Habermas's theory of democracy
Voter ignorance and the democratic ideal
Richard Posner's democratic pragmatism and the problem of ignorance
When Deliberation Produces Extremism
Does public ignorance defeat deliberative democracy
Knowledge about ignorance
Deliberative Democratic Theory and Empirical Political Science
Motivated Skepticism in the Evaluation of Political Beliefs
A disconfirmation bias in the evaluation of arguments
Who Wants To Deliberate-And Why
Between Facts and Norms
| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 0.64 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2024 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |