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Deliberative Democracy and Beyond: Liberals, Critics, Contestations

By John S. Dryzek

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2000
ISBN
9780199250431, 019925043X, 9780198295075, 0198295073, 9780191717253
DOI
10.1093/019925043X.001.0001
LCC
JC423 .D725 2002
Google Books ID
9iTqPrZAYX8C
Open Library ID
OL9586228M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1482379 bytes)
Series
Oxford Political Theory
Pages
vii;195\146
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2024-03-10 00:30:14

Description

Deliberative Democracy and Beyond takes a critical tour through recent democratic theory, beginning with the deliberative turn that occurred around 1990. The essence of this turn is that democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberation among those affected by a collective decision. While the deliberative turn was initially a challenge to established institutions and models of democracy, it was soon assimilated by these same institutions and models. Drawing a distinction between liberal constitutionalism and discursive democracy, the author criticizes the former and advocates the latter. He argues that a defensible theory of democracy should be critical of established power, pluralistic, reflexive in questioning established traditions, transnational in its capacity to extend across state boundaries, ecological, and dynamic in its openness to changing constraints upon, and opportunities for, democratization.

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