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Empathy and Democracy : Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation / Michael E. Morrell.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780271051222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 22
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The democratic promise -- 2 The deliberative turn in democratic theory -- 3 The elusive concept of empathy -- 4 Empathy in deliberative theory -- 5 Empathy's importance- the empirical evidence -- 6 Deliberative democracy and its critics -- 7 Empathy and democracy -- References -- Index
Summary: Democracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consideration and the reality of having to make legitimate, binding collective decisions. Democracies have granted political rights to more groups of people, but formal rights have not always guaranteed equal consideration or democratic legitimacy. It is Michael Morrell's argument in this book that empathy plays a crucial role in enabling democratic deliberation to function the way it should. Drawing on empirical studies of empathy, including his own, Morrell offers a "process model of empathy" that incorporates both affect and cognition. He shows how this model can help democratic theorists who emphasize the importance of deliberation answer their critics.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The democratic promise -- 2 The deliberative turn in democratic theory -- 3 The elusive concept of empathy -- 4 Empathy in deliberative theory -- 5 Empathy's importance- the empirical evidence -- 6 Deliberative democracy and its critics -- 7 Empathy and democracy -- References -- Index

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Democracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consideration and the reality of having to make legitimate, binding collective decisions. Democracies have granted political rights to more groups of people, but formal rights have not always guaranteed equal consideration or democratic legitimacy. It is Michael Morrell's argument in this book that empathy plays a crucial role in enabling democratic deliberation to function the way it should. Drawing on empirical studies of empathy, including his own, Morrell offers a "process model of empathy" that incorporates both affect and cognition. He shows how this model can help democratic theorists who emphasize the importance of deliberation answer their critics.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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