Democratic Decisions in a Critical Thinking Crisis

Aidan Kestigian

doi:10.5771/9781666928440

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Edition: 1/2025
Copyright Year: 2025
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-2843-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-2844-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 122
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
1. 1. The Problem No access
  2. Outline No access
2. 1. The Deliberative Democratic Lens No access
  2. Deliberation vs. Voting No access
  3. The Common Good Condition No access
  4. Defining the Common Good No access
  5. 1. Non-procedural Conceptions No access
    2. Aggregative vs. Distinctive Common Good No access
    3. The Common Good and the CGC No access
  6. Idealism and Promoting the Common Good No access
  7. Note No access
3. 1. Goals No access
  2. What Counts as Collective “Deliberation”? No access
  3. Voting without Deliberation and Its Moral Deficiencies No access
  4. Moral Improvements through Deliberation No access
  5. 1. First-Order CGC (CGC 1) No access
    2. Second-Order CGC (CGC 2) No access
    3. 1. Knowledge No access
      2. Reasoning No access
  6. 1. Orderings No access
    2. Knowledge No access
    3. Reasoning No access
    4. Motivation No access
  7. What Comes Next No access
  8. Note No access
1. 1. Overview No access
  2. Study Designs No access
  3. Do Preferences Change? No access
  4. 1. Deliberative Polls No access
    2. Jury and Mock Juries No access
  5. 1. Knowledge of Policy Items No access
    2. Knowledge of the Common Good and the Voting Procedure No access
    3. Preference Consistency No access
    4. Deliberating with Information No access
  6. Appendix No access
  7. 1. Aggregate Results and Categorization No access
    2. Deliberative Polling Background and Demographic Effects No access
    3. Jury and Mock Jury Experimental Effects on Verdicts No access
  8. Note No access
2. 1. Motivation No access
  2. Deliberation and Perception Change in the Normative Literature No access
  3. Reported Motivations No access
  4. Indirect Evidence No access
  5. Future Studies No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Note No access
1. 1. Where Are We? No access
  2. Why Are Empirical Results Messy? No access
  3. Is This Good or Bad News? No access
  4. Good Reasons Are True and Relevant No access
  5. Democratic Legitimacy No access
  6. 1. Duty of Civility No access
    2. Duty of Reciprocity No access
    3. So What? No access
    4. Good Reasons Are Intersubjectively Valid No access
  7. Summing Up No access
  8. Note No access
2. 1. What Skills Are Required for Deliberation? No access
  2. Reasoning Skills in Deficit No access
  3. Examples of Skill Gaps No access
  4. How to Build Skills No access
  5. What We’ve Shown No access
3. Chapter 8: Better, More Productive Disagreements No access
References No access Pages 105 - 118
Index No access Pages 119 - 120
About the Author No access Pages 121 - 122