Democracy as Public DeliberationRoutledge, 06.02.2018 - 238 Seiten One of the most remarkable developments in the last twenty years has been the revival of the idea of deliberative democracy. Set against aggregative models of democracy derived from economics, such as the theory of rational choice, the idea of deliberative democracy, or decision-making based on public deliberations among free and equal citizens, represents a highly significant development in democratic theory. Exploring this development, this book provides a fresh and original perspective on a theme at the center of current debates in democratic theory and practice. The essays collected in this volume offer a series of powerful arguments in support of the view that fair and equal treatment of groups is best defended on the basis of a theory of public deliberation. Such a theory has both a normative and institutional dimension. It provides a framework for the normative justification of state policies toward socially or culturally disadvantaged groups, and suggests several institutional mechanisms, such as deliberative forums and citizen's juries, where the voices of disadvantaged groups can be articulated under fair conditions and become effective in shaping' public policy. Democracy as Public Deliberation reminds us that the issue of democracy is not simply one of top-down management and control, but bottom-up considerations that are often located in ethnic, religious and linguistic groups. The great virtue of this volume is to identify statist systems that claim to be democratic, but only in terms of the dominant culture. Democracy as Public Deliberation indicates that democracy often comes in small packages--and in that very fact, it tests the actual ambitions and standards of the macro-state. This is an especially powerful volume for those interested in the strengths and weaknesses of third world structures. |
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... individuals and groups in contemporary Western societies. Although pluralism is not a uniquely modern phenomenon, it has assumed greater political salience in societies composed of a number of distinct cultural groups claiming ...
... individuals considered independently of their group affiliations. D'Entrèves examines three responses to this challenge ... individual or collective. This aim is achieved by the creation of an overlapping consensus among the variety of ...
... individual's life is enhanced if it is freely chosen from a range of available options. He also thinks that membership of a community is conducive to human wellbeing, because it determines the horizon of one's opportunities and helps to ...
... individuals. Cooke maintains that the educative argument is insufficient as a justification of deliberative democracy for at least three reasons. The first can be seen by posing the question: what is it about deliberation - as opposed ...
... individuals. In order for it to work, the educative argument has to presuppose the availability of some independent standard for evaluating the individual's moral and intellectual development. For that reason, too, it requires support ...
Inhalt
MAURIZIO PASSERIN DENTRÈVES | |
MAEVE COOKE | |
Deliberation citizenship and identity | |
MICHAEL SAWARD | |
JUDITH SQUIRES | |
GRAHAM SMITH AND CORINNE WALES | |
Citizenship | |
DAVID MILLER | |
Index | |
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Democracy as Public Deliberation: New Perspectives Maurizio Passerin d'Entrèves Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2002 |