... as it is being pursued by many who would otherwise consider themselves advocates for books and reading. The principal mistake, which has guided public policy decisions in this process, is to elevate the “text” above the “book” and moreover above the experience of reading, which entails an encounter...

... to publish and what to prune from their backlists. Copyright © 1995 1995 university presses publishing decline of the monograph public policy ...

... importance of both well-functioning markets and open and democratic public action. Copyright © 1994 1994 famine Malthusianism social entitlements Kerala state China’s “one-child policy” ...

... to arrive at optimal decisions on public policy. Here, in this second installment of “Antipolitics,” part 2 of my project treats an alternative and epistemically superior basis for democratic self-rule—sortition, “a system whereby multiple, short-duration, representative samples of the full population...

... and Public Policy Program Occasional Paper, August 2019 . https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/populism-really-problem-for-democracy . Roberts Jennifer Tolbert . Accountability in Athenian Government . Madison : University of Wisconsin Press , 1982 . 4. Roberts, Accountability...

... policies and regulations will actually achieve.” 6 Of course, a technocratic view of administrative agencies is far from universally held. Scholars of public administration and administrative law have long advocated a “place for politics” in regulatory decision-making, 7 recognizing...

... testimony, discuss relevant matters with relatively neutral experts, and write a one-page analysis that includes key factual details and the strongest pro and con arguments. 21 Ten years of research on the CIR show that the Oregon public gives it considerable credence and gains timely policy...

... Gastil , Distinguished Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences, Public Policy, and Political Science at Penn State University, is the author of Democracy in Small Groups ; The Group in Society ; Political Communication and Deliberation ; By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy...

... The sway. the Roman empire), with little regard for the opinions of the citizens under their decisions that determined public policy in the Hellenistic kingdoms (and later, in rhesia of ofmeaning and Philip Macedon Alexander political rendered the original result. a as modified been one’s...

... . Democracy in Crisis: Lessons from Ancient Athens . Sortition and Public Policy. Exeter, UK : Imprint Academic , 2022 . Ober Josiah . Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People . Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 1989 . Rhodes P. J...

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.... Murphy begins his essay by contrasting constitutionalism with democratic theory: Whereas democratic theory turns to moral relativism, constitutionalism turns to moral realism. It presumes that “out there” lurk discoverable standards to judge whether public policies infringe on human dignity...

... they already favor, for reasons mainly unrelated to policy. 24 When voters learn of the policy positions (for example, support for public works, military spending, nuclear power, and so on) of candidates they already favor, they come to favor those policies as well. For most policies, though presumably...

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.... The past is as difficult to predict as the future. When one follows debates that concern events disconcerting or alarming to public opinion, it is hard to dis- pel the impression that the ghost of yesterday is active in today’s affairs. The arrest...

... employed in a discourse distinguishing the good Muslim from the bad Muslim, classify- ing as friends those who think and behave as we do, and rejecting as enemies those who do not. So Islamophilia, sometimes promoted in public policy as a way to counteract the dangers of Islamophobia, ultimately...

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..., taste or (as David Riesman once suggested) the mark of a warped personality. warped a of mark the suggested) once Riesman (asor David taste such. as him would qualify activity whathim we would today a call public intellectual, not much else about his civic society,American Veblen led...

... by two otherwise quite distinct theorists, John Dewey and Hannah Arendt. For Dewey, “the public” exists when a group of people face shared problems. 6 This frame fits well with Arendt's idea that, in public life, we are “thrown” together with others and thus that public action is characterized...