Deliberative systems : deliberative democracy at the large scale /

'Deliberative democracy' is often dismissed as a set of small-scale, academic experiments. This volume seeks to demonstrate how the deliberative ideal can work as a theory of democracy on a larger scale. It provides a new way of thinking about democratic engagement across the spectrum of p...

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Other Authors: Parkinson, John, 1966- (Editor), Mansbridge, Jane J. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Series:Theories of institutional design.
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Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • 1. A systemic approach to deliberative democracy / Jane Mansbridge, James Bohman, Simone Chambers, Thomas Christiano, Archon Fung, John Parkinson, Dennis F. Thompson, and Mark E. Warren
  • 2. Rational deliberation among experts and citizens / Thomas Christiano
  • 3. Deliberation and mass democracy / Simone Chambers
  • 4. Representation in the deliberative system / James Bohman
  • 5. Two trust-based uses of minipublics in democratic systems / Michael K. MacKenzie and Mark E. Warren
  • 6. On the embeddedness of deliberative systems: why elitist innovations matter more / Yannis Papadopoulos
  • 7. Democratizing deliberative systems / John Parkinson.