Democratic Theory and Practice in Deeply Divided Societies

O'Flynn, Ian

doi:10.1080/00344893.2010.499696

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“…The central idea to our two‐stage method is to approach public reason as a process that takes seriously the concern that people might initially have a difficult time framing their claims in ways that do not conflict with other people's standing as political equals. Indeed, this obstacle is at the core of critiques of deliberative democracy and consociationalism (Deveaux ; Dryzek ; O'Flynn ; Rawls ; Weinstock ). Our approach is inspired by Quong (), who refutes the argument that identity claims are not public reasons and therefore should not be part of deliberations.…”

Section: Designing Textbooks In Divided Societies: a Two‐stage Approachmentioning

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Deliberating and Learning Contentious Issues: How Divided Societies Represent Conflict in History Textbooks

Drake

McCulloch

2013

Studies Ethnicity & National

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History education can either exacerbate polarization and division or it can have conciliatory potential. Looking at a number of divided societies, we identify trends in curriculum portrayals of inter-group conflict. Noting the power of re-telling the past, we argue for a conciliatory approach to textbook design that entails the inclusion of multiple narratives. We detail why groups need to set out their own account of events and discuss the importance of the way that groups develop their accounts. We recommend an institutional, process-based approach to textbook design grounded in the values of deliberative consociationalism and argue that the conciliatory approach is best pursued in a two-stage model of deliberations. We develop this model and focus on how deliberations might occur and with what restrictions, taking seriously concerns about the applicability of deliberation in divided societies.

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Section: Designing Textbooks In Divided Societies: a Two‐stage Approachmentioning

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Deliberating and Learning Contentious Issues: How Divided Societies Represent Conflict in History Textbooks

Drake

McCulloch

2013

Studies Ethnicity & National

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“…Given the regularity of elections at different levels of power in Ukraine and the fierceness with which these campaigns are contested, research into the creation, operation and application of election techniques has particular relevance. The theoretical framework for this research includes works by Western authors (for example, Bafumi and Shapiro 2009;Jacobs and Shapiro 2000;Guelke 2012;Byrne 1997;O'Flynn 2010;Emr and Writer 2013;Schaap 2006, Riker 1986, Coons and Weber 2014Goodin 1980;McDermott 2010) and Ukrainian authors (Rudych and Paharev 2011; Balaban 2007;Myhalchenko 2007;Nagorna 2008;Poltorak 2015;Vydrin 1991;Variy 2003).…”

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Understanding campaign “axiotechniques”: Their nature and practical usage in Ukrainian elections

Kutsenko¹

2018

Politics in Central Europe

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This article seeks to shed more light on Ukraine’s parliamentary elections by considering campaign tools that were derived from values in the electorate and used in elections between 2006 and 2012. The influence of political values on the electoral process was pointed out by American political scientists in the mid-20th century. My research demonstrates, however, that the political choices of Ukrainians in the 2006–2012 elections gave rise to campaign techniques that were not based on “classic” political values like freedom, human rights and democracy. Instead, their source was national identity-related values including the importance of a common history, culture and language along with religious and geopolitical preferences. These values differed between the western and central regions of Ukraine on the one hand and the southern and eastern parts of the state on the other. This regional polarisation did not seem very dangerous, however, until the emergence of election campaigns based on political ideology. As ideology gradually lost its mobilising potential, there was a need for an effective new system of political influence. Manipulative techniques were deployed to incite artificial clashes between citizens with different political identities. This article analyses specific uses of these techniques and uncovers links between their application and the destruction of the electoral space in Ukraine as well as the division of the country’s real political arena.

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“…This link expresses two major roles normative theory may play in critical-empiricist research. First, in the early stages of the empirical research process, normative theory can inform the choice of research questions and designs by indicating the normative relevance of phenomena that could potentially be studied (see O'Flynn, 2010). In that way, normative theory, with its focus on justified ideals, can help allocate resources for empirical research efficiently and in a way that ultimate serves to increase its public value.…”

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A Framework for Critical-Empiricist Research in Political Communication

Rinke¹

2017

Preprint

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Empirical research on political communication can play an important role in informing debates about the democratic value of various political communication processes. However, the degree to which political communication researchers can live up to this task depends on how systematically they relate their empirical investigations to concerns formulated in normative conceptions of democracy. In this paper, I present a framework for the empirical normative analysis of political communication. Based on the two core research procedures of normative assessment and empirical validation, it provides a model of the relations between normative and empirical research and a template for the empirical study of normatively relevant aspects of political communication. The paper systematizes the relations between normative theory and empirical reality, and discusses the two core procedures for empirical researchers to productively bridge the two. The framework is supposed to foster systematic exchanges between empirical studies of political communication and normative democratic theory and clarify the contribution of empirical studies to democratic theory, practice, and reform. It also implicates additional justification for greater use of controlled experimental research and cross-context comparative studies.

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Democratic Theory and Practice in Deeply Divided Societies

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

Deliberating and Learning Contentious Issues: How Divided Societies Represent Conflict in History Textbooks

Deliberating and Learning Contentious Issues: How Divided Societies Represent Conflict in History Textbooks

Understanding campaign “axiotechniques”: Their nature and practical usage in Ukrainian elections

A Framework for Critical-Empiricist Research in Political Communication

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