Democracy-Appealing Partisanship: A Situated Ideal of Citizenship
| Autor: | Jessica M.F. Hughes, Karen Tracy |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Journal of Applied Communication Research. 42:307-324 |
| ISSN: | 1479-5752 0090-9882 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00909882.2014.911940 |
| Popis: | This study develops a context-grounded ideal about how citizens ought to communicate in legislative hearings about contentious issues. We begin with an overview of the dominant model of good citizen discourse, democratic deliberation, and argue why it is an inappropriate norm for public hearings in state legislative bodies. After overviewing grounded practical theory (GPT), the meta-theoretical approach used, and providing background on the demands of public meetings, we describe the public hearing that is the focal data. That hearing was the 18-hour, 2009 Hawaii hearing on a bill that proposed to recognize committed relationships of same-sex couples through civil unions. The analysis of citizen testimony evidences a discourse strategy, democracy-appealing partisanship, which speakers on both sides of the issue used to manage the challenges they confronted in speaking out. This strategy involved advocating strongly for one viewpoint as an appeal to either majority rule or minority rights and/or either fre... |
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