Bringing together new work from many of the leading experts on
democratic citizenship, this volume presents both normative
argument and empirical analysis to help deepen our understanding of
the various competences that citizens require if there is to be a
flourishing democratic political order in our present age.
The essays explore the following themes: (1) the essential
components of democratic citizenship and how these can be fostered;
(2) the state of citizen competence in various democratic regimes;
(3) civil society as a crucial site for the exercise and
development of democratic citizenship; (4) new findings that show
democratic citizens to have more political information and behave
more rationally than hitherto supposed; and (5) the theory and
practice of new institutional forms for democratic deliberation and
democratic control.
The final section of the book explores new and revitalized forms
of democratic participation as well as the kind of participation
that is likely to foster a wide variety of citizen competences. The
discussion runs from what we know and can expect from town
meetings, to the value of public work in fostering a democratic
citizenry, to entirely new forms for expressing citizen
judgment.
The Contributors are Benjamin Barber, Harry C. Boyte, Frank M.
Bryan, Michael A. Dimock, Stephen L. Elkin, James S. Fishkin,
Norman Frohlich, John Gaventa, Elizabeth Gerber, Alan Kay, Robert
E. Lane, Arthur Lupia, Jane Mansbridge, Joe A. Oppenheimer,
Benjamin Page, Samuel Popkin, Nancy Rosenblum, Robert Shapiro,
Karol Edward Soltan, Marion Smiley, and David Steiner.
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