Deliberative Democratic Theory and Empirical Political Science

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ID6232918
AuthorsD F Thompson (0000-0003-1938-6436, Harvard University, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume11
Issue1
Pages497-520
Publication date2008-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnnual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577
PublisherAnnual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1146/annurev.polisci.11.081306.070555
OpenAlexW2114976936
LanguageEN
Citations received400
References cited75

Although empirical studies of deliberative democracy have proliferated in the past decade, too few have addressed the questions that are most significant in the normative theories. At the same time, many theorists have tended too easily to dismiss the empirical findings. More recently, some theorists and empiricists have been paying more attention to each other's work. Nevertheless, neither is likely to produce the more comprehensive understanding of deliberative democracy we need unless both develop a clearer conception of the elements of deliberation, the conflicts among those elements, and the structural relationships in deliberative systems

Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Economics · Empirical research · Empiricism · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Philosophy · Social Media and Politics

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