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Contemporary political theorists continue this type of thinking about democracy by arguing that the development of "public judgment" among regular citizens should be made the central concern of modern politics. Public judgment, in the words of Benjamin Barber, is a function of commonality that can be exercised only by citizens interacting with one another in the context of mutual deliberation and decision.

Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson

Kevin Mattson

Born: 1966 (age 58)

Bio: Kevin Mattson is an American historian and critic. Mattson received his B.A. from the New School and his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester. For several years he ran the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy at Rutgers University,

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Intellectuals in Action (2002)

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