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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Public Deliberation"”.
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Navigating Hate: The Public Deliberation of Matthew Shepard and Hate Crime Legislation
… study seeks to evaluate how Shepard is used in public deliberation, the role of private organizations in the public deliberation of hate crime legislation, and the discursive history of the Shepard-Byrd Hate Crime Prevention Act of 2009. Through a rhetorical criticism, this study finds that the …
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Institutionalising Public Deliberation in Public Policy Agenda Setting: The Case of the Sustainable Communities Act (2007)
The thesis argues that responsive governance can be achieved through institutions that increase civic influence upon policy agendas. Participatory-deliberative processes (PDPs) are understood to offer mechanisms for democratic responsiveness. However, the ways in the outcomes of (PDPs) can be …
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Identity, Culture, and Conversation in Public Education: A New Focus on the Educational Foundation of a Public
This paper establishes that public education must contribute to creating a public and to renewing the way to achieve it in light of a wide-ranging pluralism. A radical pluralism underscores differences in culture and identity as the resources of moral perspectives indispensable to public …
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The pobladores and local democracy in Chile : the case of El Bosque and Peñalolén
… decision-making that precludes public deliberation. It hardly engages the pobladores' organizations in the local polity and policymaking, fostering organizational fragmentation, selective deactivation and cientism. The "participatory-deliberative" style combines innovative …
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Impacts of (un)civil discourse by organized groups on local governance in sustainable development projects
… setting is increasing, especially during public meetings about sustainable development projects. Planners, mediators, facilitators, and government officials are facing a shutting down of public deliberation by "new activists" who are engaging in public forums in very emotional and …
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Democratic Speech in Divided Times
… have influentially argued that inclusive deliberation, where citizens voice their concerns and exchange justifications, is crucial to democracy. However, this deliberative ideal has come under sustained attack for being excessively utopian. As a result, to make this ideal more relevant and …
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The Latino Public Sphere in Minnesota: Enacting Cultural Citizenship Through Media
… The research examines a segment of the Latino public sphere in Minnesota to examine how Latinos engaged in public deliberation online. Using citizenship and public sphere theory, the research shows how Latinos in the Twin Cities formed enclave and counter publics that aimed to transform …
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Democracy and city life
… in recent political theory ties legitimacy to public deliberation about reasons, offered for and against exercises of authority by informed and sincere citizens, who share a commitment to finding mutually acceptable terms of social cooperation. But even such reasonable citizens may disagree on …
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Social and Emotional Learning: An Argument for Religious Pluralism
… to privatize religion and avoid meaningful public deliberation of competing views of the good life and the good society. However, I contend that this paradigm is no longer adequate for equipping twenty-first century students with the background knowledge, critical thinking, problem-solving, …
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Deliberation as an Epistemic Endeavor: UMunthu and Social Change in Malawi's Political Ecology
… the view that Malawi’s Local Government model of public participation is representative and open to all forms of knowledge production. Through a case study analysis of the political economy of knowledge production of selected District Councils in Malawi, I argue that the consultative approach …
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Herodotus and the birth of freedom.
… relationship of freedom to political power, public deliberation, and civic equality. Ultimately, my analysis of Herodotus's presentation of Persia not only shows that Herodotus did not think that the Persian monarchs wielded tyrannical power over the Persians, but also shows that Herodotus …
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict contexts of South Africa and Rwanda
… frame. It is argued that the gap is addressed by public deliberation or “live rhetoric”, allowing for a divided citizenry in post-conflict contexts to create a transformation (metanoia) and sameness of intent (homonia) in their community that prevents stasis – a reciprocal threat of civil war due …
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Towards a just community: an examination of the development of cultural citizenship rights in Canada from a communitarian perspective
… in Canada in that the proper mechanisms for public deliberation exist.
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Debating the lessons of history : the politics of the Nazi past in Germany and Austria
This dissertation argues that public deliberation is a transformative force in democratic politics. I build a framework for analyzing public debates in advanced industrial societies, and then use it to illuminate the political stakes of "coming to terms with the past" in societies with recent …
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In the company of citizens: the rhetoric of Singapore Inc.
… of Singapore take great pride in the small republic's economic achievements. Given its economic success, prominence in international markets, and cultivation of the world's highest density of millionaires, it is unsurprising that the nation is often referred to as ""Singapore Inc.,"" a …
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The Impact of the Internet on Civic and Political Participation in Local Governance: A Mulitilevel Model for Bridging Individual and Group Levels of Analysis
… to create awareness and draw citizens into public deliberation about local issues and concerns. This research examines the interplay of individual and local group level factors in order to better understand the relationship between civic engagement and ICT, especially the internet, by using …
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Risk, responsibility, and power in the regulation of Ireland’s financial services industry, 2004-2017
As the Irish financial crisis of 2008 unfolded, public deliberation focused on the treatment of Ireland’s ‘bailed out’ financial institutions and the social and economic impact of austerity. Meanwhile, Ireland’s regulatory actors sought to update a regulatory framework to better ‘protect’ citizens …
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Nicholas Wolterstorff's Reformed epistemology and its challenge to Lockean and Rawlsian liberalism.
… duty of religious-reason restraint in their public deliberations. Two basic strands of political theory are proposed as talking partners for Wolterstorff. The first is an Enlightenment public epistemology liberalism that argues for religious-reason restraint on the basis of a foundationalist …
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Meaningful relations: the relational basis of aesthetic judgment and its implications for aesthetic concern in environmental deliberation
… priority status attached to aesthetic issues in public deliberation on matters concerning environmental and ethical issues. Although interconnected reasons are identified for the prevalence of this attitude a principal reason is the tendency to assume a conventional understanding of aesthetic …
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Piliečių dalyvavimas priimant viešuosius sprendimus: Šiaulių miesto savivaldybės atvejis /
… thesis examines the participation of citizens in public decision-making at the local government level. The aim of the work: after analyzing the benefits, methods and possibilities of citizens' participation in public decision-making, to investigate the situation of citizens' participation in the …
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