A single unified public sphere cannot achieve participation parity in stratified societies

Evidence

In contradistinction to Habermas, Nancy Fraser submits that “in stratified societies, arrangements that accommodate contestation among a plurality of competing publics better promote the ideal of participatory parity than does a single, comprehensive, overarching public.” — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent, 1078

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the reader’s broader reading on mediating structures, black denominational public spheres, and how subaltern counterpublics operate within stratified societies. — connects to: The public sphere is defined by shared topics and editorial quality, not participation parity — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 44; Participation without control over parameters is not democracy but its evisceration — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 247; Deliberative inclusion in civil society lacks force without state institutionalization — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 695 (+9 more)
• DEFINE: Contrasts the single-overarching-public ideal with a plurality-of-competing-publics model, keying into how oppressed groups build their own publics.

Broader Connections

• Demands for universal participation ideologically undermine functional differentiation. #complicates (0.88) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 777
• Deliberative democracy fails without material equality among participants #corroborates (0.87) — Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster, From the Ground Up, 522
• Democratic equality cannot exist without a correlate of inequality and exclusion #corroborates (0.86) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 173
• The public sphere is defined by shared topics and editorial quality, not participation parity #contradicts (0.85) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 44
• Institutionalized disrespect blocks participation as fully as unequal resource distribution does #expands (0.85) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 119
• Agonistic pluralism rejects the ideal of a fully inclusive rational consensus #corroborates (0.83) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 327
• Deliberative inclusion in civil society lacks force without state institutionalization #qualifies (0.82) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 695
• Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere asked whether welfare-state industrial societies can be democratized #responds-to (0.80) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2361
• The abstract universality of rights discourse enables its expansion to excluded groups #complicates (0.79) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 228
• Participation without control over parameters is not democracy but its evisceration #qualifies (0.78) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 247
• Social media’s fragmentation and boundary-dissolution combine to undermine the national public sphere’s integrating power #exemplifies (0.76) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 35
• A green public sphere cultivates disagreement to provoke engagement beyond tolerance #complicates (0.74) — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice, 717