By Christian Schemmel
What are the implications for normative democratic theory of behavioral research into the impact of framing on human decision-making capacities? This is the question that Jamie Terence Kelly sets out to answer. He maintains that investigating the importance that different theories of democracy should ascribe to framing effects will throw light on the moral arguments for democracy that these theories can give, and on their plausibility.
This is an interesting new area of research that has not previously received any sustained treatment in the literature on normative democratic theory, and, for this reason, Kelly presents a worthwhile contribution that deserves close attention.
Published:
2013
Online available:
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