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    Commentary on Neculau

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    Commentary on Secor

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    Commentary on Cramer

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    Commentary on Johnson

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    Commentary on van Belle

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    Accounting for the force of the appeal to authority

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    As appeals to expert authority shift from “fallacies” to “argument schemes,” argumentation theorists are called on to provide critical questions for assessing them. I argue that current treatments focus too heavily on assessing expertise, and not enough on judging trustworthiness. I propose instead a norma-tive pragmatic account of the rational force of the appeal to expert authority, one that emphasizes the ex-pert\u27s actions in constructing his/her own legitimate trustworthiness

    Commentary on Mifsud

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    Commentary on Plug

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    Review of Deliberation, Democracy, and Civic Forums: Improving Equality and Publicity by Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

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    Review of Deliberation, Democracy, and Civic Forums: Improving Equality and Publicity by Christopher F. Karpowitz and Chad Raphael (New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2014)

    Principles of rhetorical democracy

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    Este artículo cuestiona la aproximación a la democracia deliberativa que realizan algunos cientistas políticos. Cuando la palabra "retórica" es invocada como palabra clave, su ámbito de significación se restringe la mayoría de las veces al "estilo" -cómo algo es nombrado para construir el consenso de una manera que no se preste a la manipulación-. En la mayoría de las formulaciones, la racionalidad es opuesta al discurso persuasivo, ya que no se ha de confiar en este como medio de asegurar el acuerdo entre iguales. Mi objetivo es proveer un esquema algo más claro para el papel que juega la retórica en el proceso deliberativo. Comienzo sosteniendo que el "punto de partida" para la democracia deliberativa -su compromiso para buscar el consenso entre iguales- es precisamente el movimiento equivocado para el mantenimiento del debate deliberativo. Voy a presentarlo como el primero de cuatro principios fundamentales que subyacen a la instanciación de lo que estoy llamando una "democracia retórica" -en parte para distinguir este proyecto de quienes rechazan el rol inherente de la retórica para favorecer un entorno en el que la democracia pueda florecer-. El resto de los principios pone la atención en la aceptación de la diferencia cultural, así como el papel potencial que la incivilidad podría jugar, el sentido positivo en el que el discurso teñido emocionalmente anticipa la acción social, y el papel más preciso de construir y expresar los argumentos para favorecer la democracia retórica.This essay challenges the approach to deliberative democracy that is taken by several political scientists. When "rhetoric" is invoked as a key term, its province is restricted for the most part to "style" -how something is languaged in manufacturing consensus in a manner not given to manipulation. Rationality is, in most formulations, opposed to persuasive discourse, as the latter is not to be trusted as a means of ensuring agreement among equals. My goal is to provide a somewhat clearer blueprint for the role rhetoric plays in the deliberative process. I begin by arguing that the "starting point" for deliberative democracy -its commitment to seeking consensus among equals- is precisely the wrong move for the preservation of deliberative inquiry. I will advance this as the first of four fundamental principles underlying the instantiation of what I am calling a "rhetorical democracy" -in part to distinguish this project from those that reject rhetoric's inherent role in enhancing an environment in which democracy might flourish. The remaining principles focus attention on the acceptance of cultural difference, as well as the potential role incivility may play, the positive sense in which emotionally tinged discourse advances social action, and the more precise role of constructing and expressing arguments in enhancing rhetorical democracy
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