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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778628303321

Titolo

Deliberative democracy : essays on reason and politics / / edited by James Bohman and William Rehg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©1997

ISBN

0-262-31125-9

1-282-09980-9

0-262-26893-0

9786612099809

0-585-00322-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (478 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BohmanJames

RehgWilliam

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Democracy

Representative government and representation

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

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I The Idea of Deliberative Democracy: Major Statements; 1 The Market and the Forum: Three Varieties of Political Theory; 2 Popular Sovereignty as Procedure; 3 Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy; 4 The Idea of Public Reason; II Recent Debates and Restatements: Reason, Politics, and Deliberation; 5 How Can the People Ever Make the Laws? A Critique of Deliberative Democracy; 6 Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority; 7 Reason, Justification, and Consensus: Why Democracy Can't Have It All

8 The Significance of Public Deliberation9 What Sort of Equality Does Deliberative Democracy Require?; 10 Deliberative Democracy and Effective Social Freedom: Capabilities, Resources, and Opportunities; 11 Democratic Intentions; 12 Difference as a Resource for Democratic Communication; 13 Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy; Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The anthology opens with four key essays - by Jon Elster, Jurgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls - that helped establish the



current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens. Although the authors approach the topic of deliberation from different perspectives, they all aim to provide a theoretical basis for a more robust democratic practice."--Jacket.