Empathy and Democracy Pamela A. Nevills Gopal Sreenivasan

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there is an almost universal fascination with how the mind works and how it affects our lives and our behavior

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Empathy and Democracy Pamela A. Nevills Gopal SreenivasanDemocracy harbors within it fundamental tensions between the ideal of giving everyone equal consideration and the reality of having to make legitimate, binding collective decisions. Democracies have granted political rights to more groups of people, but formal rights have not always guaranteed equal consideration or democratic legitimacy. It is Michael Morrells argument in this book that empathy plays a crucial role in enabling democratic deliberation