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Coming To Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work In A Complex World
Reviewed by Gaddis Smith
Coming To Public Judgment: Making Democracy Work In A Complex World
Syracuse University Press
1991
290 pp.
$34.95
Here is a serious, reflective commentary on the failure of American political society to develop and value public judgment as distinguished from superficial public opinion. Yankelovich describes and deplores the "Culture of Technical Control" maintained by experts disdainful of the public and a public unwilling to "argue with Einstein."

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