Modern Readings in Theory 1 Agenda Three Lenses Dahl Ober Scholtz Discussion And Platos Gorgias 26Jan17 2 Three Lenses Dahl Ober Scholtz 26Jan17 3 Dahls Strong ID: 525903
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Democracy: Plausible Paradox?
Modern Readings in Theory 1Slide2
Agenda
Three “Lenses”
Dahl, Ober, Scholtz
DiscussionAnd Plato’s Gorgias?
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2Slide3
Three “Lenses”
Dahl, Ober, Scholtz
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3Slide4
Dahl’s Strong
Principle of Equality
The belief that “all members of [an] association are adequately qualified to participate on an equal footing with others in the process of governing the association”
(Dahl 31)
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4Slide5
Dahl’s “Assumptions”
… for a political order
Purposeful association
Decision making involving
Agenda settingOutcome-deciding
… for a
democratic
order
Equality before the law
Equality of interests
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5Slide6
“Criteria for a democratic process”
1.
Effective participation
by citizens.2.
Voting equality at the decisive stage.3. Citizens’
enlightened understanding
of issues.
4. Popular
control of agenda
.
Problems?. . .
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6Slide7
Ober’s “Dialectical” Model. . .
Operative antitheses
Mass/elite
Equality/inequality
Freedom/consensusPopular sovereignty/rule of law
Ideological negotiations
Rhetorical mediation
Topoi
Elitism
Ideology
Popular hegemony
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7Slide8
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8
Elite (
rhētōres
)
Mass (
dēmos
)Slide9
Scholtz’s “Dialogical” Model
Speech acts (alter social reality)
Constatives v. performatives
Social constraints
Dialogical democracy
Response to response
Social…
evaluation
performance
Discursive…
normativity
pluralism
CLYTEMNESTRA
“
O give way (
pithou
, “obey”)! The power is yours if you surrender, / all of your own free will, to me
”
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9Slide10
Dialogue, Athenian Democracy
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10
Centripetal discourse
normative
homonoia
(“consensus”)
Centrifugal discourse
pluralistic
isegoria
(“freedom of speech”)Slide11
Discussion
And Plato’s
Gorgias?
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11Slide12
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12
Do any of the assigned theoretical readings relate to
Plato’s
Gorgias?
How? / How not?