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Loneliness, unhappiness, consumerism and its political consequences: observations and

April 3, 2021 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Social Criticism No Comment 8 Views

Twenty years ago, the American political psychologist Robert E. Lane (1917 – 2017) published The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies (2000). In it, he showed that Westerners (and Americans in particular) wereRead More

Emotions and Political Deliberation

April 8, 2019 by Phillip Reissenweber, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Research, Uncategorized No Comment 9 Views

Reading the title of this article might evoke pictures of people violently shouting at each other or bursting out into tears while pleading their cause in front of an audience. Whereas the firstRead More

Countering Radicalization: What the Research on Deliberation and Radicalization Teach

October 7, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Extremism and Monism, Research No Comments 5 Views

Could radicalization be prevented or reversed by bringing together those that have seemingly entered this path, with other not (yet) radicalized citizens, to discuss fundamental issues like: democracy, pluralism, freedom, autonomy, respect andRead More

Robert A. Dahl on Pluralism, Democracy and Deliberation

July 19, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Civil society, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Uncategorized No Comment 7 Views

Robert Dahl (1915 – 2014) is one of the most influential political scholars of the last century. His ideas on political scholarship, pluralism, democracy and deliberation also influenced Social Science Works. On Dahl,Read More

Challenging extreme claims for truth: How to deliberate the open, pluralist society w

June 4, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Civil society, Deliberation, Democratic Theory, Uncategorized No Comment 3 Views

Imagine we are dealing with a person with a rather monistic mindset, thus believing, assuming or hoping that all questions can only have one right answer, that all these answers can be neatly,Read More

Charles Edward Lindblom, In Memoriam

April 24, 2018 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Research, Science Watch, Uncategorized No Comment 5 Views

On January 30, 2018, Charles Lindblom died at the age of 100. His ideas on, among others, policy making processes, democracy, the limits and possibilities of social and political science, impairment, and usableRead More

How to deliberate fundamental values? Notes from Brandenburg on our approach.

February 20, 2018 by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Democratic Theory 1 Comment 6 Views

People hardly ever change their mind. The more they feel forced to justify themselves, the more they feel questioned, criticized, disrespected, and the smaller the chance that they will open their mind toRead More

How Postmodernism Advanced Populism: An Inside Story From The Netherlands

December 21, 2017 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Populism, Science Criticism No Comment 4 Views

There are many factors that explain the upheaval of populism. Postmodernism is one of them. In the Netherlands, certainly the columnist represented and helped to shape the postmodernist mood, a mood characterized byRead More

Taking people seriously: a new approach for countering populism and furthering integr

May 11, 2017 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Democratic Theory, Populism No Comment 3 Views

In our deliberative democracy and integration projects we treat our participants – natives as well as migrants – as citizens, able and willing to discuss in a rational way the big themes likeRead More

How To Debate Values In A Diverse Europe

April 1, 2016 by Hans Blokland, by Hans Blokland, Deliberation, Democratic Theory No Comment 3 Views

We need to talk. We need to talk about fundamental concepts like democracy, ethical and political pluralism, tolerance, equality and freedom, concepts that many consider as constitutive for the European identity. We needRead More

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