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Studying ‘Everyday Political Talk’ in the Deliberative System

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ID9537027
AuthorsPamela Johnston Conover (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, corresponding author), Donald D Searing (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year2005
Volume40
Issue3
Pages269-283
Publication date2005-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Politica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6810 • E-ISSN: 1741-1416
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1057/palgrave.ap.5500113
OpenAlexW2042146433
LanguageEN
Citations received81
References cited34

‘Everyday political talk’ is an increasingly important part of what Jane Mansbridge characterizes as ‘deliberative systems’ in industrialized democracies. However, how is it practiced by ordinary people? And how does their practice affect democracy and citizenship? Our paper addresses four questions: (1) How should everyday political talk be conceptualized as a component of the ‘deliberative system’? (2) What can and cannot be learned by studying normative topics like deliberation empirically? (3) How can we investigate such everyday talk using the methodologies of survey research, focus groups and content analysis? (4) What have we learned in our own research programs from each methodological approach

Citizenship · Comparative politics · Deliberation · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Epistemology · Focus (optics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · E-Government and Public Services · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Media and Politics

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