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| Public sphere: The public sphere is a abstract space where people can come together to discuss and debate issues of public concern, where public opinion can be formed and where citizens can hold their government accountable. See also Society, Community, Democracy, Deliberative Democraty, Social Media, Media. _____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Jürgen Habermas on Public Sphere - Dictionary of Arguments
IV 509 Public sphere/Habermas: The political system ensures mass loyalty in both positive and negative ways; positive through the prospect of the redemption of welfare state programs, selective by excluding topics and contributions from public debate. This can be done through socio-structural filters, through the bureaucratic deformation of the structures of public communication or through manipulative control of communication flows. The interaction of these variables explains why the symbolic self-representation of the political elites in public can be largely decoupled from the real decision-making processes within the political system.(1) This corresponds to the segmentation of the voter role. IV 510 The election decision generally only has an influence on the recruitment of management personnel and its motives are beyond the reach of discursive decision-making. This amounts to a neutralization of the possibilities of political participation legally opened up by the citizenship role. >Political elections, >Electoral systems, >Democracy, >Society, >Discourse, >Discourse theory, >Deliberative democracy, >Politics. 1.M. Edelmann, The symbolic use of politics, Urbana 1964; D.O. Sears, R.R. Lau, T. R. Tyler, H. M. Allen, Self-Interest vs. Symbolic Politics, Am. Pol. Rev. 74, 1989, p. 670ff._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ha I J. Habermas Der philosophische Diskurs der Moderne Frankfurt 1988 Ha III Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. I Frankfurt/M. 1981 Ha IV Jürgen Habermas Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns Bd. II Frankfurt/M. 1981 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-27