Informal Networked Deliberation: How Mass Deliberative Democracy Really Works

Abstract: Deliberative democracy started out as an ideal for mass democracy. Lately, however, its large-scale ambitions have mostly been shelved. This article revivifies the ideal of mass deliberative democracy by offering a clear mechanism by which everyone in the community can be included in the same conversation. The trick is to make use of people’s overlapping social communicative networks through which informal deliberative exchanges already occur on an everyday basis. Far from being derailed by threats of polarization, echo chambers, and motivated reasoning, informal networked deliberation can indeed put everyone in touch, directly or indirectly, with everyone else.

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Informal Networked Deliberation: How Mass Deliberative Democracy Really Works ; volume:45 ; number:1 ; year:2023 ; pages:23-54 ; extent:32 ; Analyse & Kritik ; 45, Heft 1 (2023), 23-54 (gesamt 32)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Tanasoca, Ana

Further information

• DOI: 10.1515/auk-2023-2003
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023060914121022199812
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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