Conflict Profiteers are Wrong: Revealing Common Ground, the Conditions for Dialogue, and the Opportunities Ahead for Bridging Differences Between Citizens | Democratic Theory | Cambridge Core Conflict Profiteers are Wrong: Revealing Common Ground, the Conditions for Dialogue, and the Opportunities Ahead for Bridging Differences Between Citizens

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Waisanen & Becker push back on conflict profiteers. Americans are far less polarised than media often suggests.

Before we "bridge" divides, we need to first *reveal* the common ground that already exists.

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A book I want to reread is C.B. Macpherson's "The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism".

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Thought — A core challenge for #DemocraticInnovations is the common gap between their utopian promises and underwhelming real-world outcomes. This expectation-reality divorce deserves deeper scholarly attention. #ParticipatoryDemocracy #DemocraticTheory

2nd in thread:...aimed at proving oneself to be first among equals, too many people assuming that they can live off-the-grid, a tyranny of the majority in which the people who guess that their opinions are unpopular silence themselves. Well?
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Hi! I'm new here. I'm a former IP lawyer and current Berkeley PhD student researching #democratictheory, #epistemicrights, and #AI policy. I'm also a 2024 Graduate Fellow at the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science and the Public.

John Thrasher, @ChapmanU #Philosophy Professor, wrote article "Democracy Unchained: Contractualism, Individualism, and Independence in Buchanan’s Democratic Theory" published in Homo Oeconomicus.
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