Framing Democracy (eBook)

A Behavioral Approach to Democratic Theory

Jamie Terence Kelly (Autor)

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2012
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-4554-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The past thirty years have seen a surge of empirical research into political decision making and the influence of framing effects--the phenomenon that occurs when different but equivalent presentations of a decision problem elicit different judgments or preferences. During the same period, political philosophers have become increasingly interested in democratic theory, particularly in deliberative theories of democracy. Unfortunately, the empirical and philosophical studies of democracy have largely proceeded in isolation from each other. As a result, philosophical treatments of democracy have overlooked recent developments in psychology, while the empirical study of framing effects has ignored much contemporary work in political philosophy. In Framing Democracy, Jamie Terence Kelly bridges this divide by explaining the relevance of framing effects for normative theories of democracy. Employing a behavioral approach, Kelly argues for rejecting the rational actor model of decision making and replacing it with an understanding of choice imported from psychology and social science. After surveying the wide array of theories that go under the name of democratic theory, he argues that a behavioral approach enables a focus on three important concerns: moral reasons for endorsing democracy, feasibility considerations governing particular theories, and implications for institutional design. Finally, Kelly assesses a number of methods for addressing framing effects, including proposals to increase the amount of political speech, mechanisms designed to insulate democratic outcomes from flawed decision making, and programs of public education. The first book to develop a behavioral theory of democracy, Framing Democracy has important insights for democratic theory, the social scientific understanding of political decision making, economics, and legal theory.

Autor

Jamie Terence Kelly is assistant professor of philosophy at Vassar College.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2012
• Zusatzinfo: 5 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: Affirmative Action • Arrow's Impossibility Theorem • A Theory of Justice • ballot • Barry Lam • Behavioral Approach • Behavioral Economics • Behavioural Sciences • Between Facts and Norms • boston university • Bounded Rationality • Brown University • Capability Approach • carleton university • Coase Theorem • Cognitive Bias • Condorcet's Jury Theorem • Consideration • Context effect • Cost–benefit analysis • critical thinking • Criticism • Customer • David Estlund • Decision Making • Decision-Making • Decision problem • Deliberation • Deliberative Democracy • Democracy • democratic decision making • democratic theory • Direct Democracy • economist • Elite • emphasis • emphasizing moral reasons • Empirical Evidence • empirical psychology • endowment effect • Environmental Law • epistemic competence • epistemic demands • Epistemology • Equivalency • Explanation • feasibility constraints • Forms of Government • Framing effect (psychology) • Framing Effects • freedom of speech • George Lakoff • Gerd Gigerenzer • Government • Graduate school • Group Polarization • Heuristic • Homo economicus • human choice • human decisions • inductive reasoning • inference • Institution • Institutional design • Institutional Reforms • John Rawls • judgment • judgment-based theories • law and economics • legal theory • Legitimacy (political) • liberal democracy • libertarian paternalism • Marquis de Condorcet • Meta-analysis • Morality • Motivation • Need for cognition • normative • normative democratic theory • normative theories • paternalism • Philosophy • political decision making • Political Freedom • Political Liberalism • Political Philosophy • Political Science • Political Speech • Politician • Politics • polyarchy • Prediction • Preference (economics) • Prevalence • Principle • Probability • Prospect Theory • Psychology • public education programs • pundit • Quantity • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • reason • Referendum • Requirement • Respondent • result • Self-Interest • Seminar • skepticism • Social Choice Theory • Social Science • State of affairs (sociology) • Status Quo Bias • Suggestion • Taxonomy • theory • Trade-off • Uncertainty • Vassar College • Virtue epistemology • Voting • Wealth
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-4554-8 / 1400845548
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-4554-5 / 9781400845545