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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... issues or matters of basic justice, the latter by developing a procedural conception of democracy based on formal and informal processes of public deliberation.6 The idea of deliberative democracy can thus be seen to emerge from a long ...
... issues should not be excluded from public debate but should become the topic of collective deliberation. Public deliberation must satisfy certain procedural standards (such as reciprocity, publicity and accountability) and be based on ...
... issue, to listen to the contrasting opinions and perspectives of experts, and to test their own views and opinions through a process of common debate and discussion. Only after such an extended period of deliberation are the members of ...
... issues of public concern (Fishkin), they all stress the importance of dialogue and deliberation for a more inclusive and just form of liberal society. In Chapter 3 Maeve Cooke examines the merits of the main arguments commonly advanced ...
... issues in the debate on deliberative democracy. Deliberative democracy, it is argued, entails special obligations among participants, that is, obligations which they owe to one another but not to those outside the deliberative process ...
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 |