Democratic Self-Determination and the Intentional Building of Consensus

This paper defends two fundamental but under-theorized insights coming from the theory of deliberative democracy. The first is that consensus is valuable as a precondition of democratic collective self-determination, since it ensures that democratic decisions display an adequate degree of integrity...

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Main Author: Valeria Ottonelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Westminster Press 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Deliberative Democracy
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Online Access:https://delibdemjournal.org/article/id/600/