Introduction: Lippmann, Dewey, and democracy in a hailstorm / Kristian Bjørkdahl -- "A constituency of intangibles" : Walter Lippmann's plea for a better democracy / Michael Schudson -- The Lippmann/Lippmann debate : what role do social movements play in democratic politics? / Nathan Crick -- From the illusions of democracy to the realities of its appearances / Bruno Latour -- Debates conjured, debates forgotten / Anna Shechtman and John Durham Peters -- Societal embedding of the Lippmann/Dewey debate : from opinion expression to opinion polling and mining / Slavko Splichal -- The Lippmann/Dewey debate in the history of twentieth-century progressivism / Steve Fuller -- Propaedeutic rhetorical citizenship : Deweyan impulses in Danish community-building / Lisa S. Villadsen -- A public and its solutions : Lippmann and Dewey through the prism of Norwegian social democracy / Kristian Bjørkdahl -- Democracy now : recovering the political pragmatism of Walter Lippmann and John Dewey / Scott Welsh -- Democratic deliberation, identity, and information / Patricia Roberts-Miller -- Rhetorical sociology and the management of public discourse / Robert Danisch and William Keith.
Summary:
"Explores the reception history of Walter Lippmann's and John Dewey's ideas about publics, communication, and political decision-making and assesses the relevance of these ideas for addressing contemporary crises"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.