The State of Our Field: Introduction to the Special Issue

This article introduces the special “State of the Field” issue. The essay highlights some of the key tensions that our field is wrestling with at the moment, and advocates that we think carefully about the terms we use to describe our work. It previews the articles in this special issue and urges fu...

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Published inJournal of deliberative democracy Vol. 10; no. 1
Main Authors Laura Black, Nancy L. Thomas, Timothy J. Shaffer
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published University of Westminster Press 01.07.2014
Subjects
civic life
deliberation
democracy
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Summary:This article introduces the special “State of the Field” issue. The essay highlights some of the key tensions that our field is wrestling with at the moment, and advocates that we think carefully about the terms we use to describe our work. It previews the articles in this special issue and urges future work in the field to take up the ideas, questions, and challenges posed by these essays.
ISSN:2634-0488
DOI:10.16997/jdd.181