Year: 2011
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In deliberative democracy, attempts to reconcile questions of gender and civil society are deadlocked over fundamental assumptions concerning the role of deliberation and the possibility that exclusion and inequality are inherent in democracy.Normative theories of deliberationencouraging free, equal and impartial participation by citizens are fueled by the power of reason.Reason giving is associated with dominant groupsnamely white, middle-class men; passionate, emotive and particularized speech is associated with politically disadvantaged groups such as women, minorities and poor.Limited empirical findings indicate rational models of deliberation do not affirm theorized inequalities.In this case, female participants neither experience unequal access or treatment within deliberation This dissertation seeks to provide a framework for
Author: Kara N. Dillard
Language: English
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W96611526