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Deliberative Democracy, More than Deliberation.
- Source :
- Political Studies; Feb2023, Vol. 71 Issue 1, p238-255, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- What is the relationship between deliberation and democracy? Despite the volumes dedicated to this question, recent admissions by prominent deliberative democrats—that we need not pursue a necessarily deliberative political system, but merely a democratic one—suggest that this remains an open question. Here, I defend the deliberative model's staying power against those who argue that it has been set normatively adrift. Addressing concerns of "concept-stretching," I show that the deliberative model provides much more than a defense of the practice of deliberation. Indeed, its key contribution is the answer it provides to the question of what democracy itself means in large pluralistic societies. Moreover, I show that by de-centering the practice of deliberation from deliberative theories of democracy, we can acknowledge the weakness of deliberation and the strengths of non-deliberative practices, while retaining the model's normative commitments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00323217
- Volume :
- 71
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Political Studies
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 161663508
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/00323217211032624