When the People Speak - Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation

Zusatztext James Fishkin is an impressive individual ... Fishkin has done what (to my knowledge) no other democratic theorist has attempted! namely! to design his own democratic institution-the deliberative poll (DP)... Informationen zum Autor James S. Fishkin is author of a number of books including Democracy and Deliberation (1991), The Dialogue of Justice (1992 ), The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy (1995), Deliberation Day (with Bruce Ackerman, 2004). His Deliberative Polling process has been conducted in countries ranging from China and Bulgaria to Denmark, Britain, Australia, Italy, Hungary, and the US. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Fellow ofthe Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. He has also been Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, Cambridge. He holds both a PhD in Political Science from Yale and a PhD in Philosophy from Cambridge. He holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in InternationalCommunication at Stanford University where he teaches Communication and Political Science and Directs the Center for Deliberative Democracy. Klappentext When the People Speak describes a new method of consulting the public that has been tried successfully around the world. The book combines the theory of democracy with actual practice. Fishkin lays out a theory of "deliberative democracy" and shows with practical examples, how it can be realized. Zusammenfassung When the People Speak describes a new method of consulting the public that has been tried successfully around the world. The book combines the theory of democracy with actual practice. Fishkin lays out a theory of "deliberative democracy" and shows with practical examples, how it can be realized.

Product details

• Authors: James S. Fishkin, James S. (Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and Director Fishkin, Fishkin James S.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.10.2011
• EAN: 9780199604432
• ISBN: 978-0-19-960443-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Politische Kontrolle, Propaganda und Freiheitsrechte, Öffentliche Meinung und Umfragen, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Political science and theory, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Opinion Polling