Interdisciplinary discussion of the ways in which the media is and can be used in the service of deliberative equality within the public sphere--and of the ways

The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement

Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political s

Public deliberation is essential to democracy, but the public can be fooled as well as enlightened. In three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, Benjam

This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.