February, 2009

Partisanship and Deliberation: Can’t Have One Without the Other

by James Fishkin
The Conversation
February 19th, 2009

I think this dialogue has helped bridge some areas of discussion that rarely intersect — deliberative democracy and partisanship. Actually, the discussion makes clear that each needs the other. Consider two possibilities: deliberation without partisanship and partisanship without deliberation. In a world of many partisans, deliberation without partisanship would be unrepresentative because it would leave [...]

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Partisanship in Everyday Life, and as an Organizing Principle of Democracy

by Nancy Rosenblum
The Conversation
February 19th, 2009

I picked up from correspondence with Jason Kuznicki and several of the comments an interest in pressing the uses and value of partisanship outside of political parties. The term “partisan” refers to advocates and activists in any cause, of course. We see these partisans everywhere. As I suggested earlier, partisans of social movements, activists in [...]

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