Power in Deliberative Democracy
Title | Power in Deliberative Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Curato |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 190 |
Release | 2018-10-10 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 3319955349 |
Deliberative democracy is an embattled political project. It is accused of political naiveté for it only talks about power without taking power. Others, meanwhile, take issue with deliberative democracy’s dominance in the field of democratic theory and practice. An industry of consultants, facilitators, and experts of deliberative forums has grown over the past decades, suggesting that the field has benefited from a broken political system. This book is inspired by these accusations. It argues that deliberative democracy’s tense relationship with power is not a pathology but constitutive of deliberative practice. Deliberative democracy gains relevance when it navigates complex relations of power in modern societies, learns from its mistakes, remains epistemically humble but not politically meek. These arguments are situated in three facets of deliberative democracy—norms, forums, and systems—and concludes by applying these ideas to three of the most pressing issues in contemporary times—post-truth politics, populism, and illiberalism.
Deliberative Democracy
Title | Deliberative Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Elster |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | 1998-03-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780521596961 |
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.
Why Deliberative Democracy?
Title | Why Deliberative Democracy? PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Gutmann |
Publisher | Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2009-01-10 |
Genre | 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.
Power Diffusion and Democracy
Title | Power Diffusion and Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Julian Bernauer |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 308 |
Release | 2019-05-08 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1108606482 |
Departing from the established literature connecting the political-institutional patterns of democracy with the quality of democracy, this book acknowledges that democracies, if they can be described as such, come in a wide range of formats. At the conceptual and theoretical level, the authors make an argument based on deliberation, redrawing power diffusion in terms of the four dimensions of proportionality, decentralisation, presidentialism and direct democracy, and considering the potential interactions between these aspects. Empirically, they assemble data on sixty-one democracies between 1990 and 2015 to assess the performance and legitimacy of democracy. Their findings demonstrate that while, for example, proportional power diffusion is associated with lower income inequality, there is no simple institutional solution to all societal problems. This book explains contemporary levels of power diffusion, their potential convergence and their manifestation at the subnational level in democracies including the United States, Switzerland, Germany and Austria.
The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | André Bächtiger |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 816 |
Release | 2018-08-23 |
Genre | 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.
Oral Democracy
Title | Oral Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Vijayendra Rao |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 229 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1107019745 |
Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.
The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy
Title | The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy PDF eBook |
Author | Jürg Steiner |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 289 |
Release | 2012-06-21 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107015030 |
Examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy.