Public Controversy and Partisan Deliberation

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  • Brian Martin University of Wollongong

https://doi.org/10.17583/demesci.2016.2181

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Public scientific controversies are often the enemy of deliberation, because debating and winning take precedence over an open-minded examination of options. Nevertheless, forms of deliberation do occur throughout controversies, including what can be called “partisan deliberation” in which campaigners on each side of an issue refine and coordinate their respective positions. As well, there are other opportunities for deliberation created by controversies, though the conditions are far from ideal.

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Brian Martin, University of Wollongong

Professor of Social Sciences; author of 15 books and hundreds of articles on dissent, nonviolent action, scientific controversies and other topics

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2016-07-15

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