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Democratic Listening: Principles, Practices, and Possibilities book cover

1st Edition

Democratic Listening Principles, Practices, and Possibilities

Edited By Mary F. Scudder, Michael A. Neblo Copyright 2027
220 Pages
by Routledge

Why do we care about listening? This collection examines listening in various political contexts, illuminating its profound role in democratic communication. Listening is not merely a passive act; it expresses, relies on, and alters power. If we understand listening and ignoring to be acts of political power, then it bears asking what a specifically democratic practice of listening entails.... Read more

1. Listening as Power in Political Communication

Mary F. Scudder and Michael A. Neblo

 

2. Do They Even Care? Empirical Evidence for the Importance of Listening in Democracy

Ethan C. Busby, Andrew Ifedapo Thompson, and Suzy Yi

 

3. Beyond Dichotomies: Empathy and Listening in Deliberative Democracy

Katharina Anna Sodoma and Daniel Sharp

 

4. The Evidentiary Basis for Political Listening: A Meta-Analysis of the Effect of Feeling Heard

Elisa Vogel and John Gastil

 

5. Listening, Race, Partisanship, and Politics: How Socio-Demographics, Conversational Topics, and Dyadic Properties Affect Listening

William P. Eveland, Jr, Osei Appiah, and Christina M. Henry

 

6. Can the Communication Style of Social Media Videos Affect Listening Quality and Opinion Change?

Edana Beauvais and Dietlind Stolle

 

7. An Open Mind or a Big Heart: Possible Routes to Reducing In-Group Bias

Kevin Arceneaux and Ryan Vander Wielen

 

8. When Election Officials Speak, Do Voters Listen? Trust-Building Communications, Information Seeking, and Voter Confidence in the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections

Mara Suttmann-Lea, Thessalia Merivaki, and Rachel Orey

 

9.“Are You Too Busy to Listen Up?”Legislative (Dis)engagement from Constituents in Local Public Meetings

Bai Linh Hoang

 

10. Migrating a Flock of Outsiders: Platform Affordances and Political Goals in the Chilean

Constitutional Reform

Karen Gheza, Marcelo Santos, and Sebastián Rivera

Biography

Mary F. (Molly) Scudder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Purdue University. She is the author of Beyond Empathy and Inclusion: The Challenge of Listening in Democratic Deliberation (2020) and co-author of The Two Faces of Democracy: Decentering Agonism and Deliberation (2023).

Michael A. Neblo is an Alumni Endowed Professor of Political at Ohio State University, where he directs the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA). He is the author of Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice (2015) and co-author of Politics with the People: Building a Directly Representative Democracy (2018).

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