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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Bruce A Ackerman , James S FishkinPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.70cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.90cm Weight: 0.556kg ISBN: 9780300101010ISBN 10: 0300101015 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 09 February 2004 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsReviewsAckerman and Fishkin, two of America's most thoughtful democracy scholars, argue powerfully for making democracy deliberative and deliberation democratic. Calling for a national holiday on which citizens might engage in deliberative practices, they offer a pragmatic and appealing case for a brand of deliberation that has gone missing in America's media and polling circus that passes today for democracy. Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad v. McWorld """Ackerman and Fishkin, two of America's most thoughtful democracy scholars, argue powerfully for making democracy deliberative and deliberation democratic. Calling for a national holiday on which citizens might engage in deliberative practices, they offer a pragmatic and appealing case for a brand of deliberation that has gone missing in America's media and polling circus that passes today for democracy."" Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad v. McWorld""" Author InformationBruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University. James S. Fishkin is Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication and professor of political science at Stanford University, where he is also director of the Center for Deliberative Democracy. They have both published many books on the theory and practice of American democracy. This is their first collaboration. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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