The Conception of Citizen Knowledge in Democratic Theory
| Author | : Lauri Rapeli |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Democracy |
| ISBN | : 9781137298171 |
The Conception Of Citizen Knowledge In Democratic Theory
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The Conception of Citizen Knowledge in Democratic Theory
| Author | : L. Rapeli |
| Publisher | : Palgrave Pivot |
| Total Pages | : 117 |
| Release | : 2014-01-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781349458639 |
What according to democratic theorists should the ordinary citizen know about politics? What does several decades of empirical research about citizens' political knowledge tell us? And why should we care? This book offers a comprehensive outline of the vast literature on political knowledge and by providing an analytical framework for its studying
The Conception of Citizen Knowledge in Democratic Theory
| Author | : L. Rapeli |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 126 |
| Release | : 2013-11-28 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1137322861 |
What according to democratic theorists should the ordinary citizen know about politics? What does several decades of empirical research about citizens' political knowledge tell us? And why should we care? This book offers a comprehensive outline of the vast literature on political knowledge and by providing an analytical framework for its studying
Knowledge Democracy
| Author | : Roel in 't Veld |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2010-03-10 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3642113818 |
Knowledge democracy is an emerging concept that addresses the relationships between knowledge production and dissemination, as well as the functions of the media and democratic institutions. Although democracy has been the most successful concept of governance for societies for the last two centuries, representative democracy, which became the hallmark of advanced nation-states, seems to be in decline. Media politics is an important factor in the downfall of the original meaning of representation, yet more direct forms of democracy have not yet found an institutional embedding. Further, the Internet has also drastically changed the rules of the game, and a better educated public has broad access to information, selects for itself which types to examine, and ignores media filters. Some citizens have even become "media" themselves. In a time where the political agendas are filled with combatting so-called evils, new designs for the relationships between science, politics and media are needed. This book outlines the challenges entailed in pursuing a vital knowledge democracy.
Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions
| Author | : Stephen L. Elkin |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 446 |
| Release | : 2010-11-01 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780271042435 |
A searching examination of what citizen competence is, how much it exists in the United States today, and what can be done to increase it.
The Democratic Citizen
| Author | : Dennis F. Thompson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010-02-18 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9780521131735 |
This 1970 study examines the implications of empirical studies in the social sciences with reference to various strands of American and British democratic theory. In presenting his case Professor Thompson provides an extremely valuable critical synthesis of a very large body of theoretical and empirical literature in this field. He weaves together in an original way the works of more than a dozen twentieth-century political theorists and several hundred empirical studies by political scientists, sociologists and social psychologists.
The Political Psychology of Democratic Citizenship
| Author | : Eugene Borgida |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 401 |
| Release | : 2009-04-16 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0195335457 |
While scholars in political science, social psychology, and mass communications have made notable contributions to understanding democratic citizenship, they concentrate on very different dimensions of citizenship. The current volume challenges this fragmentary pattern of inquiry, and adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of citizenship that offers new insights and integrates previously disparate research agendas. It also suggests the possibility of informed interventions aimed at meeting new challenges faced by citizens in modern democracies.The volume is organized around five themes related to democratic citizenship: citizen knowledge about politics; persuasion processes and intervention processes; group identity and perception of individual citizens and social groups; hate crimes and intolerance; and the challenge of rapid changes in technology and mass media. These themes address the key challenges to existing perspectives on citizenship, represent themes that are central to the health of democratic societies, and reflect ongoing lines of research that offer important contributions to an interdisciplinary political psychology perspective on citizenship. In several cases, scholars may be unaware of work in other disciplines on the same topic and might well benefit from greater intellectual commerce. These themes provide excellent opportunities for the interdisciplinary cross-talk that characterizes the contributions to this volume by prominent scholars from psychology, political science, sociology, and mass communications. In the final section, distinguished commentators reflect on different aspects of the scholarly agenda put forth in this volume, including what this body of work suggests about the state of political psychology's contributions to our understanding of these issues.Thus this volume aims to provide a multifaceted, interdisciplinary look at the political psychology of democratic citizenship. The interdisciplinary bent of contemporary work in political psychology may uniquely equip it to create a more nuanced understanding of citizenship issues and of competing democratic theories.
Citizen Knowledge
| Author | : Lisa Herzog |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2023-09-08 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0197681719 |
Many democratic societies currently struggle with issues around knowledge: fake news, distrust of experts, a fear of technocratic tendencies. In Citizen Knowledge, Lisa Herzog discusses how knowledge, understood in a broad sense, should be dealt with in societies that combine a democratic political system with a capitalist economic system. How do citizens learn about politics? How do new scientific insights make their way into politics? What role can markets play in processing decentralized knowledge? Herzog takes on the perspective of "democratic institutionalism," which focuses on the institutions that enable an inclusive and stable democratic life. She argues that the fraught relation between democracy and capitalism gets out of balance if too much knowledge is treated according to the logic of markets rather than democracy. Complex societies need different mechanisms for dealing with knowledge, among which markets, democratic deliberation, and expert communities are central. Citizen Knowledge emphasizes the responsibility of bearers of knowledge and the need to support institutions that promote active and informed citizenship. Through this lens, Herzog develops the vision of an egalitarian society that considers the use of knowledge in society not a matter of markets, but of shared democratic responsibility, supported by epistemic infrastructures. As such, Herzog's argument contributes to political epistemology, a new subdiscipline of philosophy, with a specific focus on the interrelation between economic and political processes. Citizen Knowledge draws from both the history of ideas and systematic arguments about the nature of knowledge to propose reforms for a more unified and flourishing democratic system. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
Classical Democratic Theory and the Classical Democratic Citizen
| Author | : William R. Keech |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 1962 |
| Genre | : Citizenship |
| ISBN | : |
Democratic Theories and the Constitution
| Author | : Martin Edelman |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 1985-06-30 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1438401841 |
Although the government of the United States is traditionally viewed as a democracy, there is considerable disagreement about what democracy means and implies. In a comprehensive study Professor Edelman examines the three democratic paradigms most prevalent in America today: natural rights, contract, and competition. Theories based on these paradigms lead to different ideas of democracy, each of which yields variant interpretations of the Constitution. This close relationship between democratic theories and constitutional interpretations is analyzed in an extensive historical introduction, which focuses on some of the major thinkers in American history. Edelman's discussion shows that neither the Constitution nor the development of American political thought can serve as an authoritative basis for any one theory of democracy. Instead of a particular theory, the historical constant was an appeal to reason inherent in our basic charter. In his methodological section, Edelman argues that we must use reason to clarify the latent values inherent in the differing concepts of democracy and the consequences that flow from them. He analyzes judicial ideas in the light of three concepts deemed central to any democratic theory—citizenship, political participation, and political freedom—and concludes with a balanced account of contemporary democratic theories, the constitutional theories related to them, and a critique of both.
