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Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy (Paperback)
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Persuasion and Compulsion in Democracy (Paperback)
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This collection of essays focuses on the roles that coercion and
persuasion should play in contemporary democratic political systems
or societies. A number of the authors advocate new approaches to
this question, offering various critiques of the dominant classical
liberalism views of political justification, freedom, tolerance and
the political subject. A major concern is with the conversational
character of democracy. Given the problematic and ambiguous status
of the many differences present in contemporary society, the
authors seek to alert us to the danger, that an emphasis on
reasonable consensus will conceal exclusion in practice of some
contending positions. The voices of vulnerable peoples can be
unconsciously or even deliberately silenced by various
institutional processes and operating procedures and a strong media
influence can change the tenor of conversations and even lead to
deception. To counter these factors, a number of the essays, in
differing ways, urge the fostering of local community conversations
or democratic agoras so that democratic debate and conversation
might maintain the vitality necessary to a strong democratic
system.
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