Book Description
This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.
Author : Michael A. Neblo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1107027675
This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.
Author : Robert J. Cavalier
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,80 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Deliberative democracy
ISBN : 9780887485374
A collection of articles on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy edited by Robert Cavalier.
Author : Stephen Elstub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 50,53 MB
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1351182625
Deliberative democracy is an approach to democracy that requires collective decision-making to be preceded by reasoned, inclusive, and respectful debate for it to be legitimate. It has become an increasingly dominant approach to democracy over the last few decades. In recent years, there has been a particular focus on ‘deliberative systems.’ A systemic approach to deliberative democracy opens up a new way of thinking about public deliberation in both theory and practice. It suggests understanding deliberation as a communicative activity that occurs in a diversity of spaces, and emphasizes the need for interconnection between these spaces. It offers promising solutions to some of the long-standing theoretical issues in the deliberative democracy literature such as legitimation, inclusion, representation, as well as the interaction and interconnection between public opinion formation and decision-making sites more generally. The deliberative systems approach also offers a new way of conceptualizing and studying the practice of deliberation in contemporary democracies. Despite its conceptual and practical appeal, the concept of deliberative systems also entails potential problems and raises several important questions. These include the relationship with the parts and the whole of the deliberative system, the prospects of its institutionalization, and various difficulties related to its empirical analysis. The deliberative systems approach therefore requires greater theoretical critical scrutiny, and empirical investigation. This book contributes to this endeavour by bringing together cutting edge research on the theory and practice of deliberative systems. It will identify the key challenges against the concept to enhance understanding of both its prospects and problems promoting its refinement accordingly. The chapters originally published as a special issue in Critical Policy Studies.
Author : David Kahane
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 12,37 MB
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0774859083
Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm in normative political philosophy. Deliberative democrats want politics to be more than a clash of contending interests, and they believe political decisions should emerge from reasoned dialogue among citizens. But can these ideals be realized in complex and unjust societies? This book brings together leading scholars who explore debates in deliberative democratic theory in four areas of practice: education, constitutions and state boundaries, indigenous-settler relations, and citizen participation and public consultation. This dynamic volume casts new light on the strengths and limitations of deliberative democratic theory, offering guidance to policy makers and to students and scholars interested in democratic justice.
Author : Amy Gutmann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 10,75 MB
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1400826330
The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and Disagreement. What exactly is deliberative democracy? Why is it more defensible than its rivals? By offering clear answers to these timely questions, Gutmann and Thompson illuminate the theory and practice of justifying public policies in contemporary democracies. They not only develop their theory of deliberative democracy in new directions but also apply it to new practical problems. They discuss bioethics, health care, truth commissions, educational policy, and decisions to declare war. In "What Deliberative Democracy Means," which opens this collection of essays, they provide the most accessible exposition of deliberative democracy to date. They show how deliberative democracy should play an important role even in the debates about military intervention abroad. Why Deliberative Democracy? contributes to our understanding of how democratic citizens and their representatives can make justifiable decisions for their society in the face of the fundamental disagreements that are inevitable in diverse societies. Gutmann and Thompson provide a balanced and fair-minded approach that will benefit anyone intent on giving reason and reciprocity a more prominent place in politics than power and special interests.
Author : André Bächtiger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1054 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191064572
Deliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, in philosophy, in various research programmes in the social sciences and law, and in political practice around the globe. It provides a concise history of deliberative ideals in political thought and discusses their philosophical origins. The Handbook locates deliberation in political systems with different spaces, publics, and venues, including parliaments, courts, governance networks, protests, mini-publics, old and new media, and everyday talk. It engages with practical applications, mapping deliberation as a reform movement and as a device for conflict resolution, documenting the practice and study of deliberative democracy around the world and in global governance.
Author : Stephen Elstub
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 2014-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0748643508
Deliberative democracy is the darling of democratic theory and political theory more generally, and generates international interest. In this book, a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. They outline the problems faced by deliberative democracy in the context of the available empirical evidence, survey potential solutions and put forward new and innovative ideas to resolve these issues.
Author : Ian O'Flynn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,76 MB
Release : 2021-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1509523499
Today, deliberative democracy is the most widely discussed theory of democracy. Its proponents argue that important decisions of law and policy should ideally turn not on the force of numbers but on the force of the better argument. However, it continues to strike some as little more than wishful thinking. In this new book, Ian O’Flynn examines how the concept has developed over recent decades, the family disagreements which have emerged, and the criticisms that have been levelled at it. Grappling with the familiar charge that ordinary people lack the motivation and capacity for meaningful deliberation, O’Flynn considers the example of deliberative polls and citizens’ assemblies and critically assesses how such forums can fit within a broader democratic system. He then considers the implications of deliberative democracy for multicultural and multi-ethnic societies before turning to the prospects for the most ambitious deliberative project of all: global deliberative democracy. This book will be essential reading for students and scholars of democratic theory, as well as anyone who is curious about the prospects for more rational decision-making in an age of populist passion.
Author : James Bohman
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 28,35 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780262522410
The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
Author : Jon Elster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 1998-03-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780521596961
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.