Empathy and Democracy
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Empathy and Democracy

Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation

  1. English
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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Empathy and Democracy

Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. Library of Congress
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. 1. The Democratic Promise
  6. 2. The Deliberative Turn in Democrative Theory
  7. 3. The Elusive Concept of Empathy
  8. 4. Empathy in Deliberative Theory
  9. 5. Empathy's Importance- The Empirical Evidence
  10. 6. Deliberative Democracy and its Critics
  11. 7. Empathy and Democracy
  12. References
  13. Index
  14. Back Cover