Michael Neblo

The Ohio State University, Political Science, Faculty Member

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Michael Neblo is the College of Arts and Sciences Alumni Professor of Political Science and (by courtesy) Philosophy, Communication, and Public Affairs at The Ohio State University, where he directs the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). Neblo's research focuses on understanding and improving the deliberative quality of representative democracy.

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National University of "Kyiv-Mohyla Academy"

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Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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Universidade Federal do Paraná

Giulia Sissa

Ucla

Alejandro Anaya Muñoz

Universidad Iberoamericana - Mexico

Martin Retamozo

Universidad Nacional de La Plata

Fabian Wendt

Virginia Tech

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LUISS Guido Carli

Juraj Marušiak

Slovak Academy of Sciences

Luiz Augusto Campos

UERJ - Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro / Rio de Janeiro State University

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The digital citizen Dignity in a Digital Age Ro Khanna Simon & Schuster, 2022. 368 pp. The Digital Republic Jamie Susskind Pegasus, 2022. 304 pp

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Two new books advocate for technological agency

Politics in Translation

The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy

Recently scholars have broadened deliberative democracy’s research agenda by developing its “syst... more Recently scholars have broadened deliberative democracy’s research agenda by developing its “systemic” interpretation. Conceiving of deliberation as a set of institutions and practices distributed throughout society, with different sites playing functionally differentiated roles simultaneously, brings the theory closer to political practice and opens up new normative potentials. However, the general turn towards a systemic interpretation of deliberation has also issued a substantial theoretical promissory note. Deliberative theorists now owe a detailed specification of what the key sites of deliberation are, how they relate to each other, and how those relations can yield emergent legitimacy, sometimes from practices and institutions that are not obviously deliberative on their face. We attempt to pay off a substantial portion of this theoretical debt by identifying the key connections between sites in the deliberative system, elaborating on the conditions that must obtain for the c...

Active Is as Active Does: Deliberative and Non-Deliberative Political Communication in Context

Special Issue: Psychological Phenomena in Democratic Deliberation

The development of theories of citizens’ political communication has been hindered by a debate ov... more The development of theories of citizens’ political communication has been hindered by a debate over whether such communication is best characterized as deliberative or non-deliberative. This article aims to overcome that impasse with a new account of citizens’ political communication informed by theories of message production and sense-making: the goals–sense-making–justification (GSJ) model. This model holds that citizens’ political-communicative behavior is influenced by multiple goals and cognitive plans, which generally vary in different contexts. This variation helps to explain why citizens’ informal political discussions during non-election periods rarely feature reason-giving—and so can be understood as non-deliberative—whereas such discussions during major-election campaigns often feature the reason-giving that is characteristic of deliberation. Moreover, the model demonstrates how cognitive plans developed in informal political discussions over repeated major-election cycle...

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