Towards a deliberative and associational democracy / Stephen Elstub.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Elstub, Stephen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Consensus (Social sciences).

Democracy.

Representative government and representation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Deliberative democracy has become one of the central areas of recent academic and practitioner discussions in democracy and has attracted vast attention. The reader will gain a significant insight to the key debates on justification and institutionalisation occurring with one of the most vital contemporary theories within democratic theory.

Contents:

Cultivating autonomy: the normative core of democracy

Deliberative democracy and autonomous decision-making

Institutionalising deliberative democracy through secondary associations

A dualist model of deliberative and associational democracy

Democratising secondary associations

Avoiding the mischief of factionalism.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-5271-X

1-281-78577-6

9786611785772

0-7486-3148-8

OCLC:

476197843