Empathy and democracy
Subtitle: feeling, thinking, and deliberation
By: Michael E. Morrell.
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: University Park, Penn
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780271036595
Subjects: Democracy -- Philosophy; Democracy -- Psychological aspects; Empathy
Description: "An interdisciplinary study of democratic theory, empirical political science, psychology, and philosophy. Proposes a multidimensional process model of empathy that incorporates both affective and cognitive features to demonstrate the importance of empathy in fulfilling democracy's promise of giving equal consideration to all citizens in collective decisions"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The democratic promise; title: The deliberative turn in democratic theory; title: The elusive concept of empathy; title: Empathy in deliberative theory; title: Empathy's importance : the empirical evidence; title: Deliberative democracy and its critics; title: Empathy and democracy.