Just Talk: Public Deliberation After 9/11

Critics of public deliberation as conventionally practiced have charged that it is “just talk” in the sense both that it substitutes sociable conversation for practical deliberation and that it substitutes political talk for political action. I argue that both criticisms rest on unnecessarily restri...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Francesca Polletta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Westminster Press 2007-12-01
Series:Journal of Deliberative Democracy
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Online Access:https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/334/