Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations

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Around 1990, democratic theory took a strong deliberative turn. In its wake, the essence of democracy is now widely understood to be the ability of all those affected by a collective decision to participate in deliberation about the decision. The deliberative turn began as a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, but it has now been largely assimilated by these same institutions and models. PREFACE CONTENTS Introduction: The Deliberative Turn in Democratic Theory 1. Liberal Democracy and the Critical Alternative 1. Deliberative Principles Justify Liberal Rights 2. Liberal Constitutions Promote Deliberation 3. Constitution-Making is Itself a Deliberative Process The Limits of Liberalism Critical Theory Retrieving the Critical Voice 2. Minimal Democracy? The Social Choice Critique The Social Choice Critique of Democracy ls Talk Cheap? The Social Choice Critique of Voting in a Deliberative Context Tractable Collective Choice via Domain Restriction From Voting to Communication From the State to the Public Sphere Conclusion 3. Difference Democracy: The Consciousness-Raising Group against the Gentlemen's Club Models of Difference Democracy Does Deliberation Repress Difference? Deliberating across Difference Storytelling and Testimony Greeting Rhetoric Argument Difference as the Contest of Discourses 4. Insurgent Democracy:Civil Society and State Democratization as Inclusion lndusive States lnclusion in Historical Perspective Emerging State lmperatives and the Prospects for Inclusion To Civil Society The Democratic Benefits of Exclusive States Movlement Strategy and State Response Conclusion 5. Transnational Democracy: Beyond the Cosmopolitan Model In Search of Transnational Democracy: Government or Governance? The International System and its Discourses Some Discursive Contests Democratic Theory and Transnational Practice Institutionalization: The Role of Civil Society Networks in Promoting Deliberatibn Inclusion, Exclusion, and Transnational Civil Society Conclusion 6. Green Democracy Green Structures, Not just Green Values Biocentric and Anthropocentric Models, and their Inadequacies The Communicative Rationality of Ecological Democracy Democracy Across the Boundary with Nature Co-ordination Through Spontaneous Order Conclusion 7. Discursive Democracy in a Reflexive Modernity Democracy in Reflexive Modernity The Shape of Deliberative Democracy Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX