Working within the cutting edges of deliberative theories, this book surveys the role of the mass media in the deliberative system and investigates, through a s

Public deliberation is essential to democracy, but the public can be fooled as well as enlightened. In three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, Benjam

The act of deliberation is the act of reflecting carefully on a matter and weighing the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions to a problem. It aims

Challenging the conventional wisdom that Americans are less engaged than ever in national life and the democratic process, Talking Together paints the most comp

Since its development shaped by the turmoil of the World Wars and suspicion of new technologies such as film and radio, political communication has become a hyb