Matters of Deliberative Democracy: Is Conversation the Soul of Democracy?
This study addresses the deliberative democracy from a critical perspective, highlighting the benefits of the deliberative turn. Among the deliberative democracy’s benefits the study includes: community-generating power, improving the accuracy of decisions, democratic legitimation of political power...
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Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi
2015-06-01
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| description | This study addresses the deliberative democracy from a critical perspective, highlighting the benefits of the deliberative turn. Among the deliberative democracy’s benefits the study includes: community-generating power, improving the accuracy of decisions, democratic legitimation of political power, democratic accountability, shaping policy by market-testing, informing public policy process. But beyond deliberative democracy advantages which are recognized by most scholars, it still remains the issue of the possibility of real-world deliberative democracy. The study presents a number of possibility conditions for deliberative democracy and several models of deliberation that can be extended (deliberative polls, citizens’ juries, national issues forums, referenda). We particularly discuss the deliberative democracy’s scale problem. The most important research questions in the present study are: How do we go from micro to macro-deliberation? Who is entitled to a say? What counts as good discourse and deliberation? How citizen deliberation can have consequences in democratic practice? The main idea is that deliberative democracy in practice implies a rethinking of politics and its feasibility is part of its desirability. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ec7bf2be7f9d40a0b3203c80f008c55b2022-12-22T03:11:18ZdeuAlexandru Ioan Cuza University of IasiMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy2067-36552067-36552015-06-01VII1143165Matters of Deliberative Democracy: Is Conversation the Soul of Democracy?Maria Corina Barbaros0“Alexandru Ioan Cuza” University of IasiThis study addresses the deliberative democracy from a critical perspective, highlighting the benefits of the deliberative turn. Among the deliberative democracy’s benefits the study includes: community-generating power, improving the accuracy of decisions, democratic legitimation of political power, democratic accountability, shaping policy by market-testing, informing public policy process. But beyond deliberative democracy advantages which are recognized by most scholars, it still remains the issue of the possibility of real-world deliberative democracy. The study presents a number of possibility conditions for deliberative democracy and several models of deliberation that can be extended (deliberative polls, citizens’ juries, national issues forums, referenda). We particularly discuss the deliberative democracy’s scale problem. The most important research questions in the present study are: How do we go from micro to macro-deliberation? Who is entitled to a say? What counts as good discourse and deliberation? How citizen deliberation can have consequences in democratic practice? The main idea is that deliberative democracy in practice implies a rethinking of politics and its feasibility is part of its desirability.http://www.metajournal.org//articles_pdf/08-barbaros-meta-techno.pdfdeliberative democracydemocratic accountabilitydecision-making processpublic opinion |
| spellingShingle | Maria Corina Barbaros Matters of Deliberative Democracy: Is Conversation the Soul of Democracy? Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology and Practical Philosophy deliberative democracy democratic accountability decision-making process public opinion |
| title | Matters of Deliberative Democracy: Is Conversation the Soul of Democracy? |
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| title_short | Matters of Deliberative Democracy: Is Conversation the Soul of Democracy? |
| title_sort | matters of deliberative democracy is conversation the soul of democracy |
| topic | deliberative democracy democratic accountability decision-making process public opinion |
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