Confronting the demands of a deliberative public sphere with media constraints

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 71-80

  Kleinschmit, Daniela ^a  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Deliberative democracy; Deliberative discourse; Habermas; Media; Public sphere

Indexed keywords

DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY; DELIBERATIVE DISCOURSE; EMPIRICAL APPROACH; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS; FOREST POLICY; HABERMAS; MEDIA; META-THEORY; POLITICAL SYSTEMS; PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS; THEORETICAL APPROACH;

COMMUNICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; FORESTRY; PUBLIC POLICY;

SPHERES;

AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; GOVERNMENTS; POLLUTION CONTROL; RESEARCH;

SCAEVIUS MILII;

EID: 84857121470     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2010.02.013     Document Type: Article

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