Abstract:In this paper, I examine the view that, surprisingly, the more citizens
deliberate about politics, the less likely they are to participate in the
realm of the political, and vice versa. In the first part of the paper, I
approach the problem from the perspective of the paradox of voting, the
claim that voting itself is instrumentally irrational because of the very
low probability that a single vote will make any difference at the
elections. In the second part of the paper, I argue that rather … Show more
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