Refeudalisation revisited: The destruction of deliberative democracy by Graham Murdock

“…Donald Trump’s election as American President and the successful referendum campaign to exit the EU in Britain have prompted renewed interest in the challenges posed to deliberative democracy by right-wing populism. This paper returns to the research on authoritarianism developed by the Frankfurt School in Germany and the United States, and particularly to their emphasis on the performative construction of appeals, and to Jurgen Habermas’s later characterisation of the translation of citizens into spectating subjects as a refeudalisation of the public sphere, and argues that these analyses continue to provide indispensable resources for understanding contemporary developments.…”
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Deliberative democracy for effective stakeholder engagement in sustainability assessment by Vivek Narain Mathur, Andrew Price, Simon Austin

Subjects: “…Deliberative process…”
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Is deliberative democracy feasible? Political disengagement and trust in liberal democratic states by Phil Parvin

“…Many political theorists have argued that deliberative democracy offers hope. Deliberative democracy, they argue, is a distinctive conception of democracy which improves upon traditional aggregative or majoritarian approaches by providing a more inclusive space in which citizens can collectively deliberate on political decisions. …”
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Deliberative qualities of online abortion discourse: incivility and intolerance in the American and Irish abortion discussions on Twitter by Dayei Oh, Suzanne Elayan, Martin Sykora

“…This paper provides a big-data-scale assessment of the deliberative qualities of online abortion discussions on Twitter in the United States (2020) and Ireland (2018) by specifically focusing on two standards: civility and tolerance for constructive disagreements. …”
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Deliberating our frames: How members of multi-stakeholder initiatives use shared frames to tackle within-frame conflicts over sustainability issues by Angelika Zimmermann, Nora Albers, Jasper O Kenter

Subjects: “…Deliberative monetary valuation…”
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The use of performance measures in the UK's coronavirus crisis: Implications for stakeholder engagement and performance management by Suzana Grubnic, Geoffrey Heath

Subjects: “…Deliberative democracy…”
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Do the origins of climate assemblies shape public reactions? Examining the impact of partisanship by Anthony Kevins, Joshua Robison

Subjects: “…Deliberative mini-publics…”
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Subjects: “…Deliberative monetary valuation…”
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‘The way enthusiasm builds’: Frame amplification and emotional reinforcement in participatory policymaking by Angelika Zimmermann, Jasper O Kenter, Alison Dyke

Subjects: “…Deliberative democracy…”
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Subjects: “…Deliberative democracy…”
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Values, emotions and views of the future – Democratic deliberation as pathway to inner transformation by Angelika Zimmermann, Jasper Kenter, Peter Wood

Subjects: “…deliberative value formation…”
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Subjects: “…deliberative value formation…”
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Incivility and intolerance on Twitter: A case study of political tweets about abortion in Ireland (2018) and the United States (2020) by Dayei Oh

Subjects: “…deliberative democracy…”
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The intermediate time of news consumption by Emily Keightley, John Downey

Subjects: “…Deliberative time…”
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Framing the change and changing frames: Tensions in participative strategy development by Angelika Zimmermann, Jasper Kenter

Subjects: “…deliberative monetary valuation…”
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Robot navigation by waypoints by Yang Wang, David Mulvaney, Ian P.W. Sillitoe, Erick A.R. Swere

“…In this paper we propose a novel waypoint-based robot navigation method that combines reactive and deliberative actions. The approach uses reactive exploration to generate waypoints that can then be used by a deliberative system to plan future movements through the same environment. …”
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Reader opinion in the digital age: tabloid and broadsheet newspaper websites and the exercise of political voice by John Richardson, James Stanyer

“…The conclusion suggests that the deliberative democratic potential of online discussion is a long way from the deliberative ideal. © SAGE Publications 2011.…”
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What kind of dialogue do we need? Gender, deliberation and comprehensive values by Clare Chambers, Phil Parvin

“…Where liberalism was generally seen as either a perfectionist theory which stipulated the supremacy of certain values over others or a contractualist theory premised upon some appropriately modelled agreement between individuals bound by common standards of rationality, it is now increasingly seen as a deliberative theory rooted in inclusive dialogue among situated individuals. …”
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Towards a Scottish Minimum Digital Living Standard: interim report by Chloe Blackwell, Jeanette D'Arcy, Rebecca Harris, Katherine Hill, Gianfranco Polizzi, Simeon Yates

“…The project employs deliberative focus groups with members of the public and stakeholder interviews to define digital inclusion needs specific to Scotland.…”
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A Minimum Digital Living Standard for UK Households in 2025: Full report by Katherine Hill, Chloe Blackwell, Eleanor Balchin, Emma Stone, Simeon Yates

“…We now have a single MDLS, developed through a series of deliberative discussion groups with working-age and pension-age households, as well as households with children, in urban and rural areas. …”
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Evaluating the contribution of PV to social, economic and environmental aspects of community renewable energy projects by Philip Leicester, Chris Goodier, Paul Rowley

“…Results show that an integrated probabilistic assessment contributes to transdisciplinary knowledge, providing decision makers with a tool to facilitate deliberative and systematic evidence-based policy making incorporating diverse stakeholder perspectives.…”
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Achieving sustainable sanitation chains through better informed and more systematic improvements: lessons from multi-city research in Sub-Saharan Africa by Louise Medland, Rebecca Scott, Andrew Cotton

“…The aggregate data set covers a wide range of research methods including; household surveys, a randomised control trial, a willingness to pay survey prototype testing of technologies, focus group discussions and deliberative forums. Thorough the research, it has been possible to identify situations where incremental improvements are being made with varying degrees of success. …”
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African youth, media and civic engagement by Thomas Tufte, Norbert Wildermuth

“…Our book taps into the less visible and dramatic, but nevertheless highly dynamic and influential process of media development and enlargement of youth-driven, deliberative spaces which sub-Saharan Africa seems currently to experience.…”
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Comparing public spheres: normative models and empirical measurements by John Downey, Sabina Mihelj, Thomas Koenig

“…Most contemporary work on public spheres tends to adopt, either explicitly or implicitly, Habermas’s idea of a deliberative public sphere as a normative model. There are, however, a number of other normative models available that are rarely the subject of empirical scrutiny: republican, liberal and multicultural. …”
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Speaking up and talking back? Media, empowerment and civic engagement among east and Southern African youth by Thomas Tufte, Norbert Wildermuth, Anne Sofie Hansen-Skovmoes, Winnie Mitullah

“…This yearbook taps into the less visible and dramatic, but nevertheless highly dramatic and influential process of media development and the enlargement of youth-driven, deliberative spaces which Sub-Saharan Africa is currently experiencing.…”
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