Why Deliberative Democracy?

✍ Amy Gutmann; Dennis F. Thompson 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Princeton University Press 🌐 English

The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In

Deliberative Democracy

📁 Deliberative Democracy

✍ Jon Elster 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic approach to the issue of deliberative democrac

Deliberative Democracy

📁 Deliberative Democracy

✍ Jon Elster (editor) 📂 Library 📅 1998 🏛 Cambridge University Press 🌐 English

It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision-making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, that is decision by discussion or deliberation. The original contributions include case studies based on historical and current instances of

Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democr

📁 Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

✍ Genevieve Fuji-Johnson 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 University of Toronto Press 🌐 English

Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic theory and its applications, this timely and important study shows what needs to be done to ensure deliberative processes offer more than the illusion of democracy.

Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democr

📁 Democratic Illusion: Deliberative Democracy in Canadian Public Policy

✍ Genevieve Fuji-Johnson 📂 Library 📅 2018 🏛 University of Toronto Press 🌐 English

Illuminating a critical gap between deliberative democratic theory and its applications, this timely and important study shows what needs to be done to ensure deliberative processes offer more than the illusion of democracy.

Challenges to Democratic Participation:

📁 Challenges to Democratic Participation: Antipolitics, Deliberative Democracy, and Pluralism

✍ Andre Santos Campos (editor); José Gomes André (editor) 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Lexington Books 🌐 English

This book gathers a series of studies by scholars who have dedicated these last few years to research in the field of participatory democracy. Their purpose is precisely to engage in a theoretical discussion about the value of participatory democracy in the 21st century. Part I deals with the challe