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Toward Wiser Public Judgment

Toward Wiser Public Judgment

Hardcover

General Political Science

ISBN10: 0826517382
ISBN13: 9780826517388
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Published: Feb 25 2011
Pages: 176
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This work revisits and expands upon Yankelovich s seminal 1991 book, Coming to Public Judgment, which argued that people advance through several distinct stages to form politically meaningful judgments about public issues. In particular, citizens must work through the temptation to opt for easy answers or engage in wishful thinking, reconcile conflicting values, and come to terms with tough tradeoffs, before they can truly support a new course of action. The present work examines these themes in light of changing societal conditions, from the advent of the Internet and the weakening of traditional media to the proliferation of urgent and complex problems that cannot be put off without courting disaster.


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