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Author David, Williams

Title Discourse, Debate and Democracy : Readings from Controversia - An International Journal of Debate and Democratic Renewal
Published New York : International Debate Education Association, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (294 pages)
Contents Contents -- Introduction -- I. From “Introducing Controversia� -- II. Article Selections for Discourse Debate and Democracy -- PART ONE: Argumentation, Debate, and Democracy -- The Argumentation Theorist in Deliberative Democracy -- Abstract -- Introduction -- I: The Idea of Deliberative Democracy -- II: The Influence of the Argumentation Theorist as Educator: Achieving Transfer -- III: The Status of the Argumentation Theorist: Expert Authority or Vicarious Participant? -- Democracy and Argumentation -- Abstract
Argumentation in the Political Context of DemocracyDevelopments Towards Democracy -- The Eastern European Syllogism -- Democracy as “Organised Uncertainty� -- The Modern Conception of Democracy -- The Classical Conception of Democracy -- Democracy as an Organisational System -- Participatory Democracy and Critical Discussion -- Higher Order Conditions for Critical Discussion -- The Role of Argumentation in Democratic Change -- The Rhetorical Phronimos: Political Wisdom in Postmodernity -- Abstract -- “Rational� Citizens and Their Political Realms
Aristotle�s Theory of KnowledgePhronesis and the Role of Rhetoric and Dialectic -- Practical Wisdom and Its Areas of Application -- Dialogue versus Deconstruction -- Critical Political Theory and the Rhetorical Phronimos -- Identity Construction and Political Wisdom -- Power and Force in Argumentation: A Dialogic Response -- Abstract -- PART I: Power and Force in Argumentation -- Navigating Dangerous Deliberative Waters: Shallow Argument Pools, Group Polarization and Public Debate Pedagogy in Southeast Europe* -- Abstract
€?Balkanization� and Group PolarizationPublic Debate and Group Depolarization -- Closed Fist or Open Palm? -- PART TWO: Public Argument, Public Policy, and Democratization -- Manifest Destiny on a Global Scale: The U.S. War on Terrorism -- Abstract -- Revoking Individual Identity -- Revoking National Identity -- Revoking Religious Identity -- The Doctrine of Global Manifest Destiny -- NOTES -- Hypocrisy and Hatred -- Abstract -- Between the Arab Street and the Arab Basement: Dimensions of Civility & Civil Society in American Public Diplomacy -- Abstract
Islamic Publics as the Object of American Foreign PolicyReclaiming Civility from within Civil Society -- Engaging Islamic Publics: American Public Diplomacy -- Miscommunication�The Distortion of Civility -- Moderates and Messengers: Separating Islamic publics -- Conclusions -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- We�ll Guarantee Freedom When We Can Afford It: The Free Market, the Russian Constitution, and the Rhetoric of Boris Yeltsin -- II. Viable Constitutionalism -- III. The Road to the Russian Constitution -- III. Yeltsin�s “Democratic Coup�
Notes ""IV. Economics and the Russian Constitution""
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Subject Debates and debating.
Democracy.
debates.
Debates and debating
Democracy
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, David Cratis
Young, Marilyn J
ISBN 9781617700361
1617700363