Conversations of Democracy
Linking Citizens to American Government
1st Edition
Published on 30. September 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-59451-754-9 (ISBN)
Description
Democratic politics involves a series of multi-directional conversations. Effective conversations have the potential to engage, educate, and animate both citizens and governmental officials. On the individual level, discovering successful conversational strategies benefits both political and social interaction. This book offers guidelines for conducting effective conversations personally, politically, and beyond such that readers of this book are unlikely to ever again look at conversation in the same way. New technologies and social trends both challenge and potentially enhance traditional face-to-face and media dominated conversations. Understanding the state, quality and potential of political conversations provides a unique perspective for evaluating and potentially improving government "by the people."
Reviews / Votes
"For over three decades C-SPAN has attempted to improve America's political conversation. Steve Frantzich takes the idea of multi-level conversations as the key defining element of democratic politics. In the process, he shows how the principles of good conversations are used and abused in contemporary political conversation."--Brian Lamb, Founder of C-SPAN
"Frantzich has written an engaging book about one of the foundations of healthy democracy: talking with one another about politics and pursuing constructive, deliberative public dialogue. Frantzich has crafted an accessible book that draws on secondary studies to develop a conversation with readers...This pragmatic how-to book fits in nicely with other books that address the erosion of basic democracy and link this erosion to declining social capital, hyperindividualism, and the shrinkage of community activity...Recommended."
--CHOICE August 2011 Vol 48 No. 11
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
black & white illustrations, figures
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-59451-754-9 (9781594517549)
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Person
Stephen Frantzich is professor political science at the U.S. Naval Academy. The author of over twenty books, he travels internationally speaking on civic engagement and the impact of technology on politics. He serves as a consultant to the U.S. Congress, Center on Civic Education, C-SPAN and a variety of foreign governments. As the President of Books for International Goodwill (www.big-books.org) he has facilitated the distribution over 4 million books to underserved populations worldwide.
Content
chapterOne Politics and Democracy as Conversation; chapterTwo Characteristics of a Good Conversation; chapterThree Conversational Strategies; chapterFour The Value of Conversation in a Democracy; chapterFive The Informational Requirements of a Good Conversation; chapterSix The Social Setting of Contemporary Conversation; chapterSeven The Language of Political Conversation; chapterEight The New Technology of Conversation; chapterNine Institutionalized Conversation; chapterTen Beyond Talking;