About the Author:
Derek W.M. Barker is a political theorist and a program officer at the Kettering Foundation, a nonprofit research organization that studies efforts to strengthen democracy. He is the author of the book Tragedy and Citizenship and has published articles in Polis, Kettering Review, and Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement. Noelle McAfee is an associate professor of philosophy at Emory University, the editor of the Kettering Review, and cochair of the Public Philosophy Network. Her work is at the intersection of subjectivity and public life, drawing widely on various traditions in philosophy and from experiments in self-government around the world. Her most recent book is Democracy and the Political Unconscious (Columbia, 2008). She is currently writing a book on the democratic imaginary. David W. McIvor is a research associate at the Kettering Foundation. He received his PhD in political science from Duke University. In addition to his interests in deliberative democracy, he has research interests in collective memory and public rituals of commemoration. He has published recently in the journal Polity.
Review:
Democratizing Deliberation punctures the primary academic myths about public deliberation, and begins to reconcile deliberative theory with the more vigorous, diverse, emotional reality of deliberation in practice...Essays by some of the top thinkers in the field explain the democratic turn in deliberative theory, making it an immensly useful volume for researchers and practitioners alike. --Matthew Leighninger, Executive Director, Deliberative Democracy Consortium
This excellent volume shows just how far deliberative democracy has come in the last generation. Deliberation as it appears in these pages is sensitive to difference, disagreement, and emotion without abandoning the commitment to political justification. It transpires in a wide range of public spaces, allows for diverse forms of communication, and generates real problem solving. Above all, it is genuinely democratic - meaning accessible to all and tied to an inclusive public culture of civic action and collective self-rule. An illuminating set of essays by an impressive cast of theorists. --Sharon Krause, Professor of Political Science, Brown University
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