Innovating democracy : democratic theory and practice after the deliberative turn / Robert E. Goodin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goodin, Robert E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Representative government and representation.

Suffrage.

Elections.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In recent years democratic theory has taken a deliberative turn. Instead of merely casting the occasional ballot, deliberative democrats want citizens to reason together. They embrace 'talk as a decision procedure'. But of course thousands or millions of people cannot realistically talk to one another all at once. When putting their theories into practice, deliberative democrats therefore tend to focus on 'mini-publics', usually of a couple dozen to a couple hundred people. Thecentral question then is how to connect micro-deliberations in mini-publics to the political decision-making processes

Contents:

Introduction

Making use of mini-publics

When does deliberation begin?

Talking politics : perils and promise

How talk informs

First talk, then vote

Who counts?

Modes of democratic accountability

Sequencing deliberative moments

The place of parties

Democratic mandates

Representing diversity

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [270]-297) and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-19-160944-7

0-19-965055-1

1-281-85333-X

9786611853334

0-19-156330-7

OCLC:

256139151