Sciencedemocracy crisispolitical science-363-6432-democracy-deliberation The crisis of democracy and the science of deliberation Research focused on individuals in isolation is not a strong match for the novel aspect of the contemporary crisis of democracy, which is a crisis of communication, not of individual reasoning, the virtues and flaws of which remain much as they have always been. … However, empirical research supports the key claims of deliberative democratic theory (although not uncritically), enabling deliberative democracy to be deployed in both diagnosis of democratic ills and in the development of effective responses to the contemporary crisis of democracy. By John S. Dryzek, et al. Mar 15th, 2019 Previous Next
