Empathy and Democracy: Feeling, Thinking, and Deliberation - Paperback

by Michael E. Morrell (Author)

An interdisciplinary study of democratic theory, empirical political science, psychology, and philosophy. Proposes a multidimensional process model of empathy that incorporates both affective and cognitive features to demonstrate the importance of empathy in fulfilling democracy's promise of giving equal consideration to all citizens in collective decisions.

Author Biography

Michael E. Morrell is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Connecticut.