Exploring the Contributions of Cultural Theory for Improving Public Deliberation about Complex Policy Problems

摘要: In this article, we argue that the Cultural Theory pioneered by Mary Douglas can help resolve two pressing issues in study and practice of public deliberation. The first these concerns how best to structure deliberative processes (or “minipublics”) have increasingly been implemented around world. We use Theory's analysis social relations derive a hypothesis concerning ideal design minipublics, outline research strategies test hypothesis. second issue pertains scaling out minipublics. describe John Dryzek's Simon Niemeyer's influential proposal for deploying discourses make deliberation more representative, discuss limits their proposal. Furthermore, show people's cultural biases (i.e., collectively shared perceptions, beliefs norms) may overcome minipublics generate trust legitimacy