Rational choice and democratic deliberation
Subtitle: a theory of discourse failure
By: Guido Pincione and Fernando R. Tesón.
Contributors: Tesón, Fernando R., 1950-
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9780521862691
Subjects: Rational choice theory; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The allure of deliberation; title: Rational choice and political discourse; title: The epistemic argument for deliberation; title: Political illiteracy : an illustration; title: Discourse failure; title: Patterns of political belief; title: Discourse failure and cognitive psychology; title: Persuasive definitions; title: Discourse failure and desert; title: The cost of dissent; title: The rational choice framework; title: Instrumental and epistemic rationality; title: Rational choice and morality; title: Why our argument is not ad hominem; title: A note on empirical testing; title: The resilience of discourse failure; title: Reliable social science and opacity; title: Deliberative institutions; title: Good policies, bad reasons; title: Shortcuts; title: Deliberation, free speech, and truth; title: Deliberation as a regulative ideal; title: Deliberative democracy, Condorcet, and Bayes; title: Symbolism in political argument; title: Self-defeatingness as symbolism; title: Symbolic behavior in politics; title: Symbolic and causal utility: Nozick's challenge; title: Symbolizing as the intended outcome; title: Are self-defeating reformers rational?; title: Why political deliberators appear to neglect consequences; title: Discourse failure and political morality; title: The moral turn; title: Balancing, deontology, and the display test; title: Direct involvement in evildoing; title: Split responsibility; title: Causal complexity in political argument; title: Moral error; title: Enforcement and causation; title: A note on religious morality; title: A note on the minimum wage and employment; title: Types of discourse failure : a summary; title: Non-epistemic defenses of deliberation; title: Deliberation as the exercise of autonomy; title: Sincerity in deliberation; title: Deliberation and social conflict; title: Deliberation and impartiality; title: Deliberation, participation, and equality; title: Discourse failure always bad?; title: Deliberation, consent, and majority rule; title: Consent and reasonableness; title: Deliberation, justice, and rights; title: Deliberation and majority rule; title: Vote indeterminacy; title: The courtroom analogy; title: Substantive principles and deliberative politics; title: Overcoming discourse failure : voluntary communities; title: A contractarian society; title: Contracts and truth; title: Contracts and compromise; title: The paradox of contract; title: Further objections and replies; title: Discursive advantages of voluntary communities; title: Loose ends.