Televote: Expanding Citizen Participation in the Quantum Age

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Bloomsbury Academic, 1992 - Political Science - 226 pages

The conclusions in this book challenge most traditional and conventional American political scientific thinking on the value and practicality of direct citizen participation in agenda setting, planning, and policy making. It does this not only by applying a new physically-based paradigm of political theory to the problem, but also by offering a wealth of original, empirical evidence to support its conclusion.

Basing her arguments on research in a new method of public-opinion/citizen-participation experiments, Slaton's book: (1) provides a new theoretical and practical response to those opposed to increasing direct democracy in the United States; (2) introduces a new method by which to promote and measure informed and deliberated public opinion; (3) proposes a new methodology that stimulates citizen participation toward and involvement in complex policy issues; and (4) applies analogies to the paradigms of quantum physics to new theories and techniques designed to promote citizen participation in a democracy.

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Contents

Quantum Theory and Political Theory
7
Early American Democracy
37
Reestablishing Elitism in America
43
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About the author (1992)

CHRISTA DARYL SLATON is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Georgia Southern University. During her graduate school career, she co-designed, tested, and analyzed a new method of public-opinion polling/citizen participation that she and her coworkers call Televote. She has published articles in Political Science and Mediation Quarterly.

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TitleTelevote: Expanding Citizen Participation in the Quantum Age
AuthorChrista D. Slaton
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1992
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedOct 15, 2008
ISBN0275938360, 9780275938369
Length226 pages
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