What Happened to Public Deliberation?
| dc.contributor.advisor | Corey, David D. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Ahrens, Stephanie | |
| dc.contributor.department | University Scholars - Honors Program | en_US |
| dc.contributor.other | Baylor University. | en_US |
| dc.contributor.schools | Honors College. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-05-07T21:12:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-05-07T21:12:19Z | |
| dc.date.copyright | 2012-05-05 | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-05-07 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Today, discussions about politics look more like battle than thoughtful conversations aimed at working toward the common good. My thesis is an effort to imagine what a more healthy political discourse might look like. To do this, I do three things: examine the common good and its place in a liberal regime, recover fundamental ideals that are related to public deliberation from our political theoretical tradition, and engage with some of the literature on the movement called "deliberative democracy." I look at it critically, seeing what it has to offer us in light of the common good and the tradition which I have outlined. I conclude by bringing together these three elements to understand what happened to public deliberation, and offer a few ideas on how we might bring our society's discourse closer to something that looks more like cooperative discussion than battle. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2104/8391 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
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| dc.rights.accessrights | Worldwide access. | en_US |
| dc.rights.accessrights | Access changed 12/15/14. | |
| dc.subject | Public deliberation. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Deliberative democracy. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political conversation. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political theory. | en_US |
| dc.subject | Political science. | en_US |
| dc.title | What Happened to Public Deliberation? | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |