The Limits of Recognition: Why Neither Deliberative Democracy nor Agonism Can Get Us Out of the Partisan Doom Loop

• In Event: Examining Democratic Deliberation, Agonism, and the Role of Incivility Amidst Political Polarization

Brief Overview

This paper argues the most influential existing theories of political discourse (deliberative democracy and agonism) face major limitations in remediating polarization, due to making shared assumptions about "adversarial recognition"

Author

• Connor Moran, SUNY at Albany