The Social Basis Of The Rational Citizen
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Author |
: Sean Richey |
Publisher |
: Lexington Books |
Total Pages |
: 117 |
Release |
: 2013-11-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780739188576 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0739188577 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (76 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen by : Sean Richey
Social networking fascinates scholars, pundits, and a billion Facebook users; this book shows that whom we know has a vast impact on our political beliefs, actions, and abilities. Prior scholarship has shown that networks are crucial to explaining everything from how bills get through Congress, why people vote, how NGO’s become successful in developing nations, and much more. Yet an in-depth analysis of the social basis of the rationality is missing. To fill this void, The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen provides the first empirical analysis of the most important hypothesized effect of social network influence on politics: social cognition. Through new lab experiments and survey data, this book shows that decision-making in groups promotes more rational choices and better citizenship. Thus, advice and learning derived from social network contacts are shown to be the basis of decision-making for the rational citizen.
Author |
: John Parkinson |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 205 |
Release |
: 2012-07-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107025394 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107025397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Deliberative Systems by : John Parkinson
A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.
Author |
: Sean Richey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2014 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1306165474 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781306165471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Social Basis of the Rational Citizen by : Sean Richey
Author |
: Christopher H. Achen |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2017-08-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400888740 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400888743 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis Democracy for Realists by : Christopher H. Achen
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.
Author |
: Axel Honneth |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 441 |
Release |
: 2014-03-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780745680064 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0745680062 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Freedom's Right by : Axel Honneth
The theory of justice is one of the most intensely debated areas of contemporary philosophy. Most theories of justice, however, have only attained their high level of justification at great cost. By focusing on purely normative, abstract principles, they become detached from the sphere that constitutes their “field of application” - namely, social reality. Axel Honneth proposes a different approach. He seeks to derive the currently definitive criteria of social justice directly from the normative claims that have developed within Western liberal democratic societies. These criteria and these claims together make up what he terms “democratic ethical life”: a system of morally legitimate norms that are not only legally anchored, but also institutionally established. Honneth justifies this far-reaching endeavour by demonstrating that all essential spheres of action in Western societies share a single feature, as they all claim to realize a specific aspect of individual freedom. In the spirit of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right and guided by the theory of recognition, Honneth shows how principles of individual freedom are generated which constitute the standard of justice in various concrete social spheres: personal relationships, economic activity in the market, and the political public sphere. Honneth seeks thereby to realize a very ambitious aim: to renew the theory of justice as an analysis of society.
Author |
: John RAWLS |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 624 |
Release |
: 2009-06-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674042605 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674042603 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Theory of Justice by : John RAWLS
Though the revised edition of A Theory of Justice, published in 1999, is the definitive statement of Rawls's view, so much of the extensive literature on Rawls's theory refers to the first edition. This reissue makes the first edition once again available for scholars and serious students of Rawls's work.
Author |
: Thomas Tufte |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2017-04-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781509517817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1509517812 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Communication and Social Change by : Thomas Tufte
How do the communication practices of governments, NGOs and social movements enhance opportunities for citizen-led change? In this incisive book, Thomas Tufte makes a call for a fundamental rethinking of what it takes to enable citizens’ voices, participation and power in processes of social change. Drawing on examples ranging from the Indignados movement in Spain to media activists in Brazil, from rural community workers in Malawi to UNICEF’s global outreach programmes, he presents cutting-edge debates about the role of media and communication in enhancing social change. He offers both new and contested ideas of approaching social change from below, and highlights the need for institutions – governments and civil society organizations alike – to be in sync with their constituencies. Communication and Social Change provides essential insights to students and scholars of media and communications, as well as anyone concerned with the practices and processes that lead to citizenship, democracy and social justice.
Author |
: Gary Browning |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 520 |
Release |
: 2000-02-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0761959262 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780761959267 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (62 Downloads) |
Synopsis Understanding Contemporary Society by : Gary Browning
Understanding Contemporary Society: Theories of the Present is a comprehensive textbook to guide students through the complexities of social theory today. Over 30 chapters, written by an international team of contributors, demonstrate clearly the practical applications of social theory in making sense of the modern world. Students are both introduced to the most significant theories and guided through the major social developments which shape our lives. Key features of the book are: clearly structured and readable prose; bullet pointed summaries and annotated further reading for each topic; makes complex issues accessible to undergraduates; focuses on relevance and practicality; chapter lay-out which is ideal for t
Author |
: R. Robert Huckfeldt |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 317 |
Release |
: 1995-01-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521452984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521452988 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Citizens, Politics and Social Communication by : R. Robert Huckfeldt
Democratic politics is a collective enterprise, not simply because individual votes are counted to determine winners, but more fundamentally because the individual exercise of citizenship is an interdependent undertaking. Citizens argue with one another and they generally arrive at political decisions through processes of social interaction and deliberation. This book is dedicated to investigating the political implications of interdependent citizens within the context of the 1984 presidential campaign as it was experienced in the metropolitan area of South Bend, Indiana. Hence this is a community study in the fullest sense of the term. National politics is experienced locally through a series of filters unique to a particular setting and its consequences for the exercise of democratic citizenship.
Author |
: Donatella della Porta |
Publisher |
: Polity |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2015-05-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0745688586 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780745688589 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Synopsis Social Movements in Times of Austerity: Bringing Capitalism Back Into Protest Analysis by : Donatella della Porta
Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in 2008, and then forcefully in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Portugal, or more recently in Peru, Brazil, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine, people have taken to the streets against what they perceive as a rampant and dangerous corruption of democracy, with a distinct focus on inequality and suffering. This timely new book addresses the anti-austerity social movements of which these protests form part, mobilizing in the context of a crisis of neoliberalism. Donatella della Porta shows that, in order to understand their main facets in terms of social basis, strategy, and identity and organizational structures, we should look at the specific characteristics of the socioeconomic, cultural and political context in which they developed. The result is an important and insightful contribution to understanding a key issue of our times, which will be of interest to students and scholars of political and economic sociology, political science and social movement studies, as well as political activists.