Laurel Gleason contends that deliberative polling constrains the autonomy of participants and substitutes the ideas and agendas of ‘‘experts’’ for those of the deliberators. However, the format and informational constraints faced by participants in deliberative forums are no worse, and are in many ways better, than those faced by ordinary citizens. The real problem with deliberative polls is th...

My ultimate aim in the first sections of this book is to present Habermas’ mature social theory, his two-tiered theory of society as system and lifeworld, and to show how this theory, after the pattern of classical critical theory, serves to point out and articulate the interests of groups who embody a potential for protest or resistance within the societal formation of advanced capitalism. On ...

This study investigates Norwegian L1 teacher students’ legitimation language as they retrospectively reflect on internship experiences during their first two years of education. We aim to describe the teaching activities within framework specialization dimension Legitimation Code Theory. Drawing particularly Bernstein’s ideas different knowledge structures and acquisition humanistic subjects, w...