Hearing the Other Side :Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy

Publication subTitle :Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy

Author: Diana C. Mutz  

Publisher: Cambridge University Press‎

Publication year: 2006

E-ISBN: 9780511279973

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780521847506

Subject: D0 Political Theory

Keyword: 政治理论

Language: ENG

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Hearing the Other Side

Description

'Religion and politics', as the old saying goes, 'should never be discussed in mixed company.'And yet fostering discussions that cross lines of political difference has long been a central concern of political theorists. More recently, it has also become a cause célèbre for pundits and civic-minded citizens wanting to improve the health of American democracy. But only recently have scholars begun empirical investigations of where and with what consequences people interact with those whose political views differ from their own. Hearing the Other Side examines this theme in the context of the contemporary United States. It is unique in its effort to link political theory with empirical research. Drawing on her empirical work, Mutz suggests that it is doubtful that an extremely activist political culture can also be a heavily deliberative one.

Chapter

Avoiding What’s Good for Us?

What Is Meant by Diversity? Some Definitional Issues

A Departure from Studying Political Preferences

Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy?

2 Encountering Mixed Political Company: With Whom and in What Context?

Sources of Evidence

What Kind of Relationships?

What Kind of People?

What Kind of Politics?

Cross-Cutting Exposure as Social Capital?

Is There a Shortage of Cross-Cutting Exposure?

Are Bigger Networks Better?

Where Does Cross-Cutting Exposure Originate?

De Facto Selective Exposure

Answered and Unanswered Questions

3 Benefits of Hearing the Other Side

The Social Psychological Plausibility of Beneficial Consequences

Evidence from Social Networks

Effects on Awareness of Rationales for Own and Oppositional Views

Consequences for Political Tolerance

An Experimental Confirmation

Benefits of Hearing the Other Side

4 The Dark Side of Mixed Political Company

Failure through Success: The Political Costs of Mixed Company

Whatever Happened to Cross-Pressures?

But Why Revive a Discredited Idea?

To Be or Not to Be Ambivalent?

Social Accountability: Political Action versus Chickening Out

New Evidence for an Old Theory

But Why Do Cross-Pressures Matter?

Social Accountability in Public and Private Participation

Cross-Pressures Resurrected

Tragedy or Triumph?

5 The Social Citizen

Normative Implications for Partisanship

A Delicate Balance?

Contradictions of Participatory Democracy

Unnatural Acts: The Social Psychology of Participation

Experiential Diversity

Making Conversation Safe for Political Diversity

Are There Plausible Alternatives?

Political Talk, in Theory and in Practice

References

Index

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