Deliberative democracy

Description:

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.

subjects: Representative government and representation,  Democracy,  Deliberative democracy,  Political science, philosophy,  Démocratie,  Gouvernement représentatif,  POLITICAL SCIENCE,  Political Ideologies,  Democratie,  Representatie (politicologie),  Overleg,  Democracia,  Teoria politica