[Commlist] CfP: Citizens, Media and Politics in Challenging Times: Perspectives on the Deliberative Quality of Communication

***JOURNAL OF PUBLIC DELIBERATION***

***Call for Papers for Special Issue***

***https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/items/call-for-papers-special-issue-citizens-media-and-politics-in-challenging-times-of-the-journal-of-public-deliberation 
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Guest Editors: Christiane Grill (University of Mannheim) & Anne Schäfer 
(University of Mannheim)

Growing anti-immigration attitudes, rising nationalist tendencies, 
landslide victories of populist figures as well as the dissolution of 
national and supranational entities – these are just some of the 
multiple political and societal challenges western democracies are 
facing nowadays. These challenges have been said to affect the way 
citizens, the media and political actors communicate among and with each 
other. More specifically, concerns about the deliberative quality of 
these communications have been put forward. While this observation has 
so far been corroborated by a series of isolated studies, which produced 
not more than a few islands of analysis, an integrative and 
comprehensive perspective on the deliberative qualities of citizens’, 
journalists’, and politicians’ communication is yet missing.

The special issue “Citizens, Media and Politics in Challenging Times: 
Perspectives on the Deliberative Quality of Communication" thus 
addresses this gap in the literature by systematically bringing together 
different strands of research on the deliberative qualities of 
citizens’, journalists’, and politicians’ communication. The special 
issue thus aims at providing an integrative and comprehensive picture on 
modern political communication in times western democracies are facing a 
multitude of disruptive challenges. Theoretical, empirical and 
methodological contributions focusing on the deliberative qualities of 
citizens’, journalists’, and politicians’ communication are welcome.

The full CfP can be found here: 
https://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/d7/en/news/items/call-for-papers-special-issue-citizens-media-and-politics-in-challenging-times-of-the-journal-of-public-deliberation 


Submissions need to speak to the deliberative democracy and democratic 
innovations literature.

When preparing your submission, please check the JPD website for 
guidelines on style and paper length: 
https://www.publicdeliberation.net/jpd/author_instructions.html

Please submit your manuscript to the following email address: 
(si.jpd /at/ mzes.uni-mannheim.de) <mailto:(si.jpd /at/ mzes.uni-mannheim.de)>

Questions about the special issue shall be directed to the guest editors 
Christiane Grill and Anne Schäfer under the email address: 
(si.jpd /at/ mzes.uni-mannheim.de) <mailto:(si.jpd /at/ mzes.uni-mannheim.de)>

The deadline for manuscripts to be considered for the special issue is 
July 31, 2019. Manuscripts will be peer reviewed and a decision rendered 
until November 2019 with a target publication of the issue in 2020.

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