La objeción de la ignorancia pública

Las teorías deliberativas de la democracia han pasado de cuestionar en su totalidad los sistemas democráticos representativos y sus procedimientos de toma de decisiones a buscar su posibilidad de realización acomodándose a las instituciones liberales. Sin embargo, la deliberación democrática sigue suscitando oposición entre varios autores por varias razones, una de las cuales, especialmente conspicua, es la llamada objeción de la ignorancia pública, que afirma que el público por su ignorancia de los asuntos políticos está incapacitado para cumplir las exigentes requisitos que toda deliberación política presupone y por la que esta, a gran escala, deviene indeseable, cuando no imposible.

Many ways to say 'no', different ways to say 'yes': Applying Q-Methodology to understand public acceptance of wind farm proposals

This paper explores the nature of public acceptance of wind farms by investigating the discourses of support and objection to a proposed offshore scheme. It reviews research into opposition to wind farms, noting previous criticisms that this has tended to provide descriptive rather than explanatory insights and as a result, has not effectively informed the policy debate. One explanation is that much of this research has been conceived within an unreflective positivist research frame, which is inadequate in dealing with the subjectivity and value-basis of public acceptance of wind farm development. The paper then takes a case study of an offshore wind farm proposal in Northern Ireland and applies Q-Methodology to identify the dominant discourse of support and objection. It is argued that this provides new insights into the nature of wind farm conflicts, points to a number or recommendations for policy functions of an example of how this methodology can act as a potential bridge between positivist and post-positivist approaches to policy analysis.

Cool Rationalities and Hot Air: A Rhetorical Approach to Understanding Debates on Renewable Energy.

A key obstacle to the wide-scale development of renewable energy is that public acceptability of wind energy cannot be taken for granted when wind energy moves from abstract support to local implementation. Drawing on a case study of opposition to the siting of a proposed off-shore wind farm in Northern Ireland, we offer a rhetorical analysis of a series of representative documents drawn from government, media, pro- and anti-wind energy sources, which identifies and interprets a number of discourses of objection and support. The analysis indicates that the key issue in terms of the transition to a renewable energy economy has little to do with the technology itself. Understanding the different nuances of pro- and anti-wind energy discourses highlights the importance of thinking about new ways of looking at these conflicts. These include adopting a “conflict resolution” approach and “upstreaming” public involvement in the decision-making process and also the counter-productive strategy of assuming that objection is based on ignorance (which can be solved by information) or NIMBY thinking (which can be solved by moral arguments about overcoming “free riders”).

Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux etablis dans le monde, depuis son origine jusqu'a present : ouvrage dans lequel on trouvera les differentes manieres d'adorer la Divinite, que la Revelation, l'Ignorance, & les Passions ont suggerees aux hommes dans tous les temps ... ; Tome troisieme.

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Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux etablis dans le monde, depuis son origine jusqu'a present : ouvrage dans lequel on trouvera les differentes manieres d'adorer la Divinite, que la Revelation, l'Ignorance, & les Passions ont suggerees aux hommes dans tous les temps ... : Tome premier.

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Dictionnaire historique des cultes religieux établis dans le monde, depuis son origine jusqu'a présent : ouvrage dans lequel on trouvera les différentes manieres d'adorer la Divinité, que la Révélation, l'Ignorance, & les Passions ont suggérées aux hommes dans tous les temps ... : tome second.

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The charge of ignorance and misrepresentation proved against George B. Cheever. From the Salem Gazette.

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The objection to the inspiration of the evangelists and apostles from their manner of quoting texts from the Old Testament. Considered in a lecture delivered September 2, 1823, in the Theological Seminary, Andover. ...

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Pædobaptism examined; with replies to the arguments and objection of Dr. Williams and Mr. Peter Edwards.

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