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Prof. JoAnn Koob at George Mason University [Antonin Scalia] School of Law told me about this project, which sounds very interesting, so I thought I'd pass it along. Here's the blurb from her: Bringing Civil Discourse to Law Schools As the country becomes increasingly divided, civil and thoughtful discussion about important issues is often shut…

The Pros and Cons of Pseudonymous Publishing for Science and the Public.

After the Polish parliamentary elections, the question of rebuilding the rule of law in Poland has been frequently raised in academic debate. The discourse is largely dominated by the status of the so-called neo-judges and the legal effects of rulings of the politically appropriated Constitutional Tribunal. We would like to highlight another problem that the new government will have to deal with – the functioning of the public prosecutor's office occupied by people associated with the Law and Justice party. There is a great risk that high-level prosecutors may effectively block or obstruct investigations into the irregularities committed under the PiS government. We believe that a partial solution to this problem might come from Poland's quick accession to the European Public Prosecutor's Office planned by the democratic opposition.

On March 14, in a bid to foster effective engagement of young researchers in public policy discourse, the Georgian Institute of Politics (GIP), with the generous support of the

The American National Election Studies (ANES) has been recognized by the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) with its Policy Impact Award– given annually to outstanding projects making a clear impact, improving policy decisions, practice and discourse. The ANES was selected for "making public opinion available to policymakers, informing public discourse, and allowing evaluation […]
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In this debate, Sada features two authors to discuss the roles that Arab Gulf states have played in shaping the conflict between Israel and Hamas, both in the diplomatic arena and at the level of public discourse.

Rapid technological change has brought myriad new sources of uncertainty and variability to the modern battlefield, and to public discourse. For millennia, militaries have integrated emerging technologies into evermore practical and impactful weapons. The proliferation ...

Anyone watching some of the recent testimony of the technology companies appearing before Australia's Senate Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media could be forgiven for thinking Australians and our public discourse are not ...

The political, economic, and social dilemmas Germany faces in 2024 require unambiguous national leadership ‒ something neither Chancellor Olaf Scholz nor opposition leader Friedrich Merz has provided in public discourse throughout 2023. On the other hand, Left Party state premier Bodo Ramelow continues to put his finger on unreconciled national divisions, that require attention from national leaders.

The challenges facing social science research are numerous and wicked – being undervalued by funders, surmounting barriers between knowledge produced and its uptake, and ensuring they get the credit they deserve in public discourse. However, as Juergen Wastl and Kathryn Weber-Boer outline, solutions could lie in demonstrating their ability to catalyse STEM research, in effect … Continued

The article, which is directly relevant to the Netchoice cases that the Court will consider this Term, is here; here's the Introduction: Major U.S. platforms can powerfully influence public discourse by removing, promoting, and otherwise moderating users' online speech. Better information about their content moderation would help policymakers enact better laws. It would also serve Internet users'…

Reading HabermasStructural Transformation of the Public Sphereby Michael Hofmann(Lanham: Lexington Books, January 2023)306 pagesDescriptionReading Habermas: Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere dissolves Habermas's monolithic stylization to precisely access his seminal distinction between the purely political "polis" of antiquity, which excludes the private economy from the "res publica", and the modern public sphere with its rational-critical discourse about commodity exchange and social labor in the political economy. Deconstructing the uniform mold of Structural Transformation's narrative about a rise and fall of the bourgeois public sphere in modernity also allows to identify and understand the ideology-critical methodologies of Habermas's theory reconstruction of Kant's ideal of the liberal public in the context of the French Revolution.ContentsPreface [Preview]Introduction [Preview]1. Structural Transformation's Normative Theses about a Dissolution of Domination in the Bourgeois Public Sphere2. Habermas's Dialectical Use of Ideology Critique to Counterfactually Assert a Moment of Historical Credibility for the Bourgeois Ideal of the Public Sphere3. Structural Transformation's Cold War Origins: Habermas's Defense of Kantian Rationality, Human Rights, and the Enlightenment4. Participatory Democracy versus Political Manipulation: The Role of Habermas's "Celebrated Coffee Houses" (Todd Gitlin) in the Modern Public Sphere5. Understanding Habermas's Public Sphere Concept by Dissolving its Monolithic Stylization: Structural Transformation's Interpretation of a Sociological and Political Category with the Norms of Constitutional Theory and Intellectual History6. Structural Transformation's Tacit Model Case of the Bourgeois Public Sphere: The French Revolution, Kant's "Unofficial" Philosophy of History, Condorcet Absolute Rationalism, and Schiller's Expressive Subjectivism7. The Achilles' Heel of Schiller's Moral Stage and Structural Transformation's Moral Politics: A Dependency of Smith's Political Economy and Kant's Constitutional Law on Mandeville's Moral Paradox of Bourgeois Society8. Habermas's Unexplained Methodology: A Complex "Ideology-Critical Procedure"9. The Result of Structural Transformation's Dialectical Use of Schmitt's "Civil War Topos" and Koselleck's "Process of Criticism:" A Tension between Developmental History and Ideology-Critical ProcedureConclusion: Renewing the Human Rights Perspective in the Political Public SphereMichael Hofmann is Professor of Communication and Multimedia Studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of "Habermas's Public Sphere: A Critique" (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017). See a preview here.

by Nicola Bazoli (FBK-Irvapp), Carlo Fiorio (University of Milan, FBK-Irvapp), Sonia Marzadro (FBK-Irvapp), Jonathan Pycroft (European Commission), and Loris Vergolini (University of Bologna, FBK-Irvapp) In recent decades, equity has gained prominence in public discourse following the Great Recession and the sovereign debt crisis, which exacerbated income inequality. Distributional Impact Assessment (DIA), intended as a set […]
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by Nicola Bazoli (FBK-Irvapp), Carlo Fiorio (University of Milan, FBK-Irvapp), Sonia Marzadro (FBK-Irvapp), Jonathan Pycroft (European Commission), and Loris Vergolini (University of Bologna, FBK-Irvapp) In recent decades, equity has gained prominence in public discourse following the Great Recession and the sovereign debt crisis, which exacerbated income inequality. Distributional Impact Assessment (DIA), intended as a set […]
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The recent crisis in the Israel and Palestine conflict has added fuel to the already heated debate over free speech in our politics and on college campuses. Does the scientific literature having anything to tell us about the health of public discourse in these domains?

A recent paper by Harvard Ph.D. candidate Yihong Huang titled "Breaking the Spiral of Silence" holds some answers. It looks at how the attention we pay, or don't pay, to who stays silent in a debate can exacerbate self-censorship.