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Alfred Moore
Researcher at University of York
Publications - 35
Citations - 704
Alfred Moore is an academic researcher from University of York. The author has contributed to research in topics: Deliberation & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 35 publications receiving 572 citations. Previous affiliations of Alfred Moore include University of British Columbia & University of Cambridge.
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Experts and Anecdotes The Role of "Anecdotal Evidence" in Public Scientific Controversies
Alfred Moore,Jack Stilgoe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors report on two separate pieces of qualitative social research into recent UK public risk controversies with the aim of unfolding the processes by which anecdotal evidence comes to be defined.
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Following from the front: theorizing deliberative facilitation
TL;DR: In this paper, the role of the facilitator in the process of bringing a deliberation to a conclusion is discussed, and various criticisms of deliberative practice in these dimensions are treated not as decisive objections, but rather as tensions to be negotiated by those who organize and conduct deliberative minipublics.
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Should We Aim for Consensus
John Beatty,Alfred Moore +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a version of what Margaret Gilbert calls "joint acceptance" called "deliberative acceptance", which capitalizes on there being a persistent minority, and thereby encourages accurate reporting of the state of agreement and disagreement among deliberators.
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Critical Elitism: Deliberation, Democracy, and the Problem of Expertise
TL;DR: Critical Elitism as mentioned in this paper argues that expert authority depends ultimately on the exercise of public judgment in a context in which there are live possibilities for protest, opposition and scrutiny, and points to new ways of looking at the role of civil society, expert institutions, and democratic innovations in the constitution of expert authority within democratic systems.