The literature reports the growing incorporation and participation of community psychology on public policies, and considering the obstacles and tensions in this relationship as reported by literature,-it is both academically ...

Since the ‘deliberative turn’ in democratic theory and practice in the 1990’s, the idea of bringing ordinary citizens closer to public decisions through reasoned exchanges of arguments has been related to a series of ...

Methodological evaluations of deliberative mini-publics usually focus on the internal and external validity of experimental designs. Even though such a focus on causal inference and generalization is important, it is ...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the collective action of social movement organizations by means of framing processes that are understood as the result of a deliberative dialogue. To this end, the text is divided ...

Nowadays, Democracies has been understood as a formal and neutral process in relation to individual private conceptions. Rules of legitimacy come to their approval by representatives in Parliament following established ...

This study focuses on the meanings of advocacy and lobby as well as how these activities are performed in Brazil and the United States. By considering different contexts and historical developments, we analyze the activities ...

The literature reports the growing incorporation and participation of community psychology on public policies, and considering the obstacles and tensions in this relationship as reported by literature,-it is both academically ...