Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance write by John S. Dryzek. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deliberative democracy puts communication and talk at the centre of democracy. This text takes a fresh look at the foundations of the field, and develops new applications in areas ranging from citizen participation to the democratization of authoritarian states to the global system.
Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance
Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance write by John S. Dryzek. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Deliberative democracy now dominates the theory, reform, and study of democracy. Working at its cutting edges, Foundations and Frontiers of Deliberative Governance reaches from conceptual underpinnings to the key challenges faced in applications to ever-increasing ranges of problems and issues. Following a survey of the life and times of deliberative democracy, the turns it has taken, and the logic of deliberative systems, contentious foundational issues receive attention. How can deliberative legitimacy be achieved in large-scale societies where face-to-face deliberation is implausible? What can and should representation mean in such systems? What kinds of communication should be valued, and why? How can competing appeals of pluralism and consensus in democratic politics be reconciled? New concepts are developed along the way: discursive legitimacy, discursive representation, systemic tests for rhetoric in democratic communication, and several forms of meta-consensus. Particular forums (be they legislative assemblies or designed mini-publics) have an important place in deliberative democracy, but more important are macro-level deliberative systems that encompass the engagement of discourses in the public sphere as well as formal and informal institutions of governance. Deliberative democracy can be applied fruitfully in areas previously off-limits to democratic theory: networked governance, the democratization of authoritarian states, and global democracy, as well as in new ways to invigorate citizen participation. In these areas and more, deliberative democracy out-performs its competitors.
Democracy Without Shortcuts
Democracy Without Shortcuts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy Without Shortcuts write by Cristina Lafont. This book was released on 2020-01-12. Democracy Without Shortcuts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
Democratic Innovations
Democratic Innovations - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Innovations write by Graham Smith. This book was released on 2009-07-02. Democratic Innovations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines democratic innovations from around the world, drawing lessons for the future development of both democratic theory and practice.
Deliberative Global Governance
Deliberative Global Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deliberative Global Governance write by John S. Dryzek. This book was released on 2019-07-25. Deliberative Global Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Global institutions are afflicted by severe democratic deficits, while many of the major problems facing the world remain intractable. Against this backdrop, we develop a deliberative approach that puts effective, inclusive, and transformative communication at the heart of global governance. Multilateral negotiations, international organizations and regimes, governance networks, and scientific assessments can be rendered more deliberative and democratic. More thoroughgoing transformations could involve citizens' assemblies, nested forums, transnational mini-publics, crowdsourcing, and a global dissent channel. The deliberative role of global civil society is vital. We show how different institutional and civil society elements can be linked to good effect in a global deliberative system. The capacity of deliberative institutions to revise their own structures and processes means that deliberative global governance is not just a framework but also a reconstructive learning process. A deliberative approach can advance democratic legitimacy and yield progress on global problems such as climate change, violent conflict and poverty.
