Democratic Decisions in a Critical Thinking Crisis【電子書籍】[ Aidan Kestigian ]

＜p＞Democratic theory is the study of democratic institutions and their normative value. A wide range of deliberative democratic theorists are committed to the Common Good Claim (CGC):deliberation is valuable because deliberation followed by voting is more likely to produce outcomes that promote the common good than voting alone. While at a theoretical level, deliberation might promote the common good by changing participants’ preferences, by improving their knowledge or reasoning skills, the empirical literature on deliberation gives very inconsistent evidence on these points.＜/p＞ ＜p＞One response to this concern is to change the structure of deliberations so that reasoning is central. But even that type of structural change isn't enough to solve the problem. ＜em＞Democratic Decisions in a Critical Thinking Crisis＜/em＞ argues that the real underlying issue is that political communities are in a critical thinking crisis. There is a dire lack of critical thinking skills among the general p．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る