PAF 9103 Study Guide/Learning Summary
Ideals of Deliberative Democracy
Be able to discuss Gastil’s 3 criteria for the democratic process, and the analytic and social deliberative processes described by him.
Aristotle, Madison, Lippmann and Dewey
Understand views of deliberation and key concepts (such as Aristotle’s topics of deliberation, checks and balances, “pictures in our heads,” and “faith in the common man.”)
Deliberation, Reason, and the Challenges of Ideology and Exclusion
Be able to discuss how Habermas’ universal pragmatics, Rawls’ veil of ignorance, Perelman’s universal audience, and Mouffe’s agonistic pluralism might help to address the challenges that ideology and exclusion pose to deliberative democracy.
Argumentation
Understand the following: induction, analogy, deduction (categorical, conditional, disjunctive)
Know the following terms associated with deductive argument: premise, syllogism, enthymeme.
Propositions–define, exemplify and discuss topics associated with each of the following:
Fact–existence, occurrence, cause
Value
Policy
Definition
Interpretation
Propositions of Policy
List 6 stock issues (need, inherency, solvency, feasibility, greater evils, comparative advantages) and be able to exemplify them.
Propositions of Cause
Name the 3 things, taken together, that form the best proof of causality
Name 3 models of causality–exemplify
Tversky & Kahnemann, “Judgment Under Uncertainty”
Understand the following heuristics: Representativeness, Availability, and Adjustment and Anchoring
Simons, “Cognitive Shorthands”
Be able to define and exemplify Cialdini’s principles of persuasion.
Be familiar with material presented in the lectures on persuasion, including Consistency Theory, and confirmation bias.
Roberts Rules of Order
Be able to answer specific questions about motions and meeting procedures (including quorum and agenda) by referring to Zimmerman’s Roberts Rules in Plain English.
Deliberation at Public Meetings
According to Gastil, what problems are typical of conventional public meetings, and how do new processes like citizen juries, deliberative polling and AmericaSpeaks events address those problems?
Deliberation in Organizations–General
Understand the following and their relationship to deliberation: Theory X and Theory Y, forming-storming-norming-performing, and small group roles (task and relational)
Graber, “Foundations of Sound Decisions”
Be able to list and describe the 4 phases of the decision making process outlined by Graber.
Be able to list and explain some of the common problems in decision making, according to Graber.
Be able to identify Graber’s models of decision structures.
Strategic Planning (Spee and Jarzabkowski)
What is strategic planning and how is it related to deliberation?
Media and Deliberation
Understand the following: FCC Media ownership rules, limited effects media theories, agenda setting theory
Cass Sunstein, Republic.com 2.0
Be familiar with the significance of the following: echo chamber, information cocoon, public forum doctrine, “Daily Me,” filtering, polarization, and enclaves.
Deliberation and the Internet
According to Iyengar & Hahn and Gentzkow & Shapiro, how ideologically segregated is our use of the media? How do their findings relate to the main claims of Republic.com?
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