Book chapter
CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS AND IMPACTS OF THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
Good Cop/Bad Cop
2010
Abstract
Social movements historically have exerted influence over collective decisions through democratic debate in the public sphere (Habermas 1962), whose
role is to serve as an arena that can “subject persons or affairs to public reason”
and “make political decisions subject to appeal before the court of public
opinion” (Habermas 1989, 141). e public sphere consists of open forums,
such as university conferences, newspaper editorials, or internet bloggers. In
these forums, debates and discussions can identify problems, develop possible
solutions, and create sufficient political pressure to have them addressed by
constitutional governments (Habermas 1996, 1998). is enables the realization of social learning based on democratic deliberation (Calhoun 1993) and
is central to the identification phase of the policy life cycle described by John
Maxwell in Chapter 5.
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Details
- Title
- CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE ENVIRONMENT: UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS AND IMPACTS OF THE U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT
- Creators
- Robert Joseph Brulle - [Retired Faculty]
- Contributors
- Thomas Lyon (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Good Cop/Bad Cop
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- [Retired Faculty]
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85128043166
- Other Identifier
- 991019173689904721