Journal•ISSN: 0001-6810
Acta Politica
Palgrave Macmillan
About: Acta Politica is an academic journal published by Palgrave Macmillan. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Comparative politics & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0001-6810. Over the lifetime, 801 publications have been published receiving 23357 citations. The journal is also known as: Acta politica (Basingstoke), & AP.
Topics: Comparative politics, Politics, Voting, Democracy, European union
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TL;DR: The results, responding to defeatist, extenuationist, and alarmist critiques, show that ordinary people can deliberate, that they benefit from doing so, and that the process neither biases nor polarizes their opinions as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The values of deliberation and political equality have proven hard to achieve simultaneously. Deliberative Polling, which embodies both, provides a useful window on deliberative democracy. The results, responding to ‘defeatist,’ ‘extenuationist,’ and ‘alarmist’ critiques, show that ordinary people can deliberate, that they benefit from doing so, and that the process neither biases nor polarizes their opinions.
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