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Record Nr.

UNINA9910453817303321

Titolo

Challenges to democratic participation : antipolitics, deliberative democracy, and pluralism / / edited by Andre Santos Campos and José Gomes André

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-9152-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (157 p.)

Disciplina

323/.042

Soggetti

Political participation

Democracy

Pluralism - Political aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction / Andre Santos Campos and José Gomes André -- I shall vote, thou shall not govern : a tale of political heresy / Kristof K.P. Vanhoutte -- Antipolitics as participation : paradox and challenge / Elena Alessiato -- Dialogic politics and the end of democracy / Vincent Jungkunz -- Why the epistemic justification of deliberative democracy fails / Christian Blum -- Participation in a deliberative system / Volkan Gül -- The challenge of slow-motion democracy : synthetic and progressive rationalization of mini-public deliberation / Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett -- Citizenship and political action : the dilemma between patriotism and cosmopolitanism / Bruno Serra -- Participative citizenship in a pluralistic democracy / Jonardon Ganeri.

Sommario/riassunto

Challenges to Democratic Participation focuses on three major trends of contemporary theoretical challenges to participatory democracy: antipolitics, deliberative democracy, and pluralism. It is accessible and useful to a wide variety of audiences, from scholars and practitioners working in political science to activists and citizens interested in the theoretical setting of democratic practices. It also enhances current scholarship, serving as a guide to existing research and identifying



useful future research.