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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... respect to competing conceptions of the good life, whether individual or collective. This aim is achieved by the creation of an overlapping consensus among the variety of reasonable comprehensive doctrines embodying different ...
... respect. An even stronger defence of deliberative democracy as the best institutional mechanism for the adjudication of conflicting moral and political perspectives is provided by Joshua Cohen. By deliberative democracy he means an ...
... respects. The first is a feature of proceduralist conceptions of fairness in general, namely that they implicitly appeal to ... respect in which the proceduralist argument is insufficient is that it can assign only a restricted role to ...
... respects in which Rawls's model of deliberative democracy is less convincing than Habermas's. She claims, first, that Rawls's model makes use of a normative conception of public reason that is non-deliberative and, as such, fails to do ...
... respect and inclusiveness. Saward examines key components of Rawls's account in order to show how they undermine this baseline vision of deliberative democracy. For Rawls, 'public reason' is either a set of reasons or a way of reasoning ...
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 |